Re: [gtk-list] Re: Stupid feature requests

[Otto Hammersmith <otto redhat com>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 1997 at 11:44:23AM -0500, Shawn T Amundson wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Otto Hammersmith wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 1997 at 06:18:42PM +0300, Martynas Kunigelis wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > 1. Why not make the button label/pixmap/whatever move along with the
> > >    button itself when the button is clicked? Motif is the only toolkit
> > >    that does not do this and why should gtk inherit bad things?
> > 
> > Because it used to be that you could specify five different pixmaps
> > for the various states of a button.  If you wanted a pixmap that
> > moved, you just provided another pixmap.  It worked, but resulted in a
> > lot of excess code.  (the advantage now is better handling of
> > backgrounds...)
> > 
> > Apparently Spencer changed how GtkPixmap widgets work, so that may not
> > be the case any longer.  I haven't had the time to look at it... so
> > I'm not sure there is a way to do it anymore. :-/
> 
> Isn't this just a matter of shifting the widget that is in the button 
> down and right 2(?) pixels?  It shouldn't make a difference what widget it
> is, whether it's a label, pixmap, or a container with both.

Yeah, sorry... somehow I read label/pixmap/whatever as pixmap.  I'm
not doing well today... *sigh*

So my question is, is it really -that- important?  Seems like an awful
lot of work (not that it's hard) for something noone will hardly
notice. 

-- 
					-Otto.