Re: [gtk-list] Re: GTK - aesthetics ???

[Greg Fall <gmf dweezil dyn ml org>]

On 4 Nov 1998, Marius Vollmer wrote:

> The things that Gtk+ draws are quite pretty to my eye, but I sometimes
> have the feeling that the spacing between things is slightly wrong.
> Buttons are placed unevenly and borders around things aren't balanced.
> Nothing dramatic, and I can't point to a specific case right now.

It's true.  Dig the buttons in balsa.  Not only is there not really enough
padding around all the text (e.g. "Compose"), but the text is often
off-center by a couple of pixels (e.g. "Reply"), and in balsa's case three
of the buttons ("Delete", "Compose", and "Previous") are too small for the
containers they're sitting in.  I don't know if crazy rigorous coding is
the requirement here, but I do know that these problems are not even close
to being balsa-specific.  I'm not much of a developer (trying...), but
either a bunch of apps with buttons were built on code from an original
app that suffers from these problems, or there is something intrinsic to
gtk that makes it easy for these little snafus to occur.

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