Re: [gtk-list] Re: Pixmaps in gtk

["Shawn T. Amundson" <amundson CompleteIS com>]

I think Joel is voluteering to put some good effort to improve GTK
here and perhaps you all should stop flaming him and hear what he
has to say.  Having the attitude that GTK (or any widget set) is 
perfect is crazy.

I think if a way can be found to do this pixmap thing (and I think 
he means for stuff like button borders, not stuff internal to the
button, which GTK can already do), without making GTK slower for 
normal use, then it is nothing but a Good Thing.  It should be possible
to set something in gtkrc that uses the internal drawing routines or
set something like the gtkwidgetpixmapset variable to "Win95" or 
"Motif" or whatever to use the pixmaps.

This shouldn't be too hard in GTK since all the drawing and stuff
is in the _draw and _paint routines.  Perhaps there will be some
technical difficulties figuring out the allocation stuff, but definately 
easier than writing from scratch I would think.  GTK's internals 
almost lend itself to adding this.

-Shawn

On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Andy Tai wrote:

> > 
> > I've been working on a high-level, C++ -based, windowing API similar
> > in goals to GTK. However, unlike GTK it's been written to use entirely
> > pixmaps, which potentially means it would be both much prettier than
> > GTK's relatively old-fashioned Motif-like interface and potentially more
> > configurable. Perhaps it would be a nice idea to write the GTK to
> > use pixmaps, or at least allow the option of using them? The prettier
> > the interface the more likely people are to use and develop for the GTK,
> > and I would prefer to help develop on an existing project rather than
> > write a toolkit from scratch.
> > 
> > 	Joel Dillon
> > 
> 
> Again this is another showing of the unhealthy attitude that looks matter more
> than usability.   Gtk is fine as is, providing what's required for an
> professional looking interface.   Going beyond that is a waste. It is wrong to
> think the prettier the interface is, the more people will use it.   
> 
> 
> 
> 
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