Re: [gtk-list] Gtk look and feel

[Joel Coulson <jmc bolian upnaway com>]

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

I never actually notices this, maybe you should have a look at the "pin
cushion" setting on your screen.. hehe

>
> "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?

It may look that way but if you click with the vicinity of the arrow and not
on the arrow itself, it will still work seeing that the "clickable area" is a
box, and not only the arrow itself!

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

Hopefully we will have full scrolling mouse support (i'm sure we already have
for X, but not all the good) so there really is no need

> 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.

I quite like having the arrow pointing to the right on the menu because more
than likely your sub menus are going to slide out to the right as well!

>
> 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!

I wouldn't go as far as to say that, have you every tried coding for the Mac,
or Windows? I personally think that GTK is far easier.

> 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.

-- Joel