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

[Matthias Fuchs <mailllists gmail com>]

So, I'm back again ;-)

I used a tool called "parasite" to inspect the gtk windows and found out, that if a button is fat or adheres to my gtkrc depends on the "can-default" setting.

The dialog buttons "cancel" and "print" are default buttons and so the gtkrc's "default-border" and "default-outside-border" settings are applied (look at the included screenshot). But the "print preview" button (marked with red) is not a default button and the defaut-border settings don't apply there. If I use parasite to set "can-default" to true, it looks like the other two buttons.
There are gtkbuttons that aren't default buttons but look slim as "cancel" and "print" too.
Could this be caused of the "print preview-cancel-print" buttons being in a GtkHButtonBox?

Or is this a bug?

br, matthias

2010/2/23 Matthias Fuchs <mailllists gmail com>

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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