Gtk look and feel

[leon udmnet ru]

Hi!

There are words in GTK docs:
"GTK is a library for creating graphical user interfaces similar to the 
Motif "look and feel"". And it can really be observed that GTK has 
inherited some Motif appearance. But, sadly, Motif is not an example
of aesthetically pleasant thing. To be sincere, Motif itself has some
kind of aestheric integrity, so it's ugliness receives some kind of
beauty through that consistency. But IMHO all attempts to accommodate
Motif look in other toolkits yeilded bad results. GTK is not an 
exception. It is the more miserable that GTK definitely has got it's
own style which is broken by invasion of foreign Motif elements. The
eyesore to looker's exacting eye are:

Concave border round the default button - it is a way too big. And
maybe it can be drawn in different style?

"Triangular" buttons on the ends of scroll bars - they impose the
feeling that they are hard to hit, because they are small, because
they are triangular. Maybe there should be square buttons with 
arrows drawn (painted) on them?

Maybe scroll bars themselves should be made one - two pixels wider 
by default?

When menu pops up (pulls down), the mouse pointer becomes leaned
backwards. That is absolutely unnecessary, because this conveys 
no info to user at all, since s/he understands very well that 
it is a menu to choose from. But it looks crooked, really.

All that said, there can be asked a simple question: why take
Motif as an example? There are *more* *perfect* GUI styles around,
Mackintosh e.g.. Take after Makintosh!

If you can't change things that are already deeply rooted 
(for "historical" reasons, I guess :) , you at least can make all
these things themable, since some of them are not themable yet 
AFAIK. 

-- 
Leon.