RE: [gtk-list] Re: How do you reduce the width of a combo box?

["Arjan J. Molenaar" <arjan xirion nl>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John C Atkeson [mailto:jcatkeson@juno.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 1:27 PM
> To: gtk-list@redhat.com
> Subject: [gtk-list] Re: How do you reduce the width of a combo box?
> 
> 
> >>
> This is one area so far that I would have to say I don't like so much
> about Gtk.  Its wonderful in so many areas but I don't like having to
> delve into internal structures to do stuff like this...  It makes your
> code so tightly tied to the internal implementation of the widget.  I
> would rather see a clean interface that provides all the functionality
> needed rather than partial functionality and the rest 
> requires internal
> delving.
> <<
>   Yeah, I guess the idea is that We the People will have to write that
> clean interface as a set of wrapper libraries, in the 
> fullness of  time. 
> ;)
>   
>   Gtk's sorta like Linux, in that it is slowly evolving from a
> partially-muscled skeleton to a single seamless creature...
>   
>   John  

Hey! It's GNU! You can't expect "them" to write everything! Just add the interfaces, make a patch and send it to the maintainers (or just the gtk-list). GNU software is not something you're just using, it's something you can help develop.