Re: All widget are too fat - theming not working properly

[Matthias Fuchs <mailllists gmail com>]

Unfortunately, all (I only tried ~10) these "compact themes" suffer the 
same bugs. Some are even tinier, but nonetheless dialog buttons, 
comboboxes etc differ in height across the UI.

I'd be glad if at least I could decrease the dialog buttons' height ... 
But as it seems that nobody before ever achieved that, I guess it's not 
possible.

Are there any plans for GTK+ 3.0 in this direction?
Imho, it's becoming more and more important for GUIs and widget toolkits 
to really look good these days. And this is not all about the theme 
itself but the GUI layout too. There are indeed pretty cool looking 
themes. But the GUI layout itself is flawed in most cases.

Imho, linux GUIs in general (GTK+, Qt or whatever) can't stand a chance 
against a Mac OS X's Aqua UI. I don't talk here about how Aqua/Cocoa 
looks like but how each widget and functionality is integrated into "the 
whole", eg. a general way of customing toolbars (yeah, some apps have 
that, but it looks/works different in every app ...)

Well, I stop here before I get offtopic even more ;-)


Am 24.02.10 21:38, schrieb sledge hammer:
> I have noticed a long time that the default(and majority of other
> themes) theming is just fat for Gtk+. Luckily the past year some nice
> themes have appeared on www.gnome-looks.org. They usually have the
> keyword "compact" in their name. Do a search on gnome-look and you'll
> find them. Study them to see if they have solved your problems.
>
>  > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:50:38 +0100
>  > From: mailllists gmail com
>  > To: gtk-list gnome org
>  > Subject: All widget are too fat - theming not working properly
>  >
>  > Hi guys,
>  >
>  > imho, all gtk widgets are much to fat/big, especially comboboxes,
>  > buttons and tabs.
>  > So ok, it's possible to decrease x-/ythickness, some paddings and stuff
>  > like this. After much hours of tweaking and tuning I managed to create a
>  > "minimal" theme. Though some buttons (those without icons) have the
>  > desired height, buttons that normally have icons, like in dialogs, are
>  > much higher. Though these icons are not visible/hidden the buttons'
>  > heights seem to not decrease anymore.
>  >
>  > There are also some quirks with comboboxes. Those that are not editable
>  > are higher as the others.
>  >
>  > Look at the screenshot to see what I mean:
>  > 1) and 2) are both chomboboxes, but 2) is one pixel higher
>  > (Yes, I know, it's just a pixel and 99,9% of all users won't ever notice
>  > is -- But I do. And everytime I look at the screen I hate it.
>  >
>  > 3) and 4) are both buttons. 4) seems to adopt my gtkrc settings, 3)
>  > doesn't. 3) should normally have an icon. But I disabled all kind of
>  > icons in menus and on buttons. Somehow they seem to still be there and
>  > prevent the button from becoming less high.
>  >
>  >
>  > Is there some way to solve these "bugs"? Is there a chance that GTK+ 3.0
>  > doesn't have such fat widgets per default?
>  >
>  > Hope, I didn't confuse you too much ;-)
>  >
>  > br, ash
>  >
>
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