Re: [patch] redo tray icon, take two

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

My apologies for the late reply, been busy with Banshee.

This is fairly easy to do, and I'll do it, but I'd like to point out 
that the icons in NM are already as large as the typical small size of 
the panel.

Typically users pack the notification area inside the "menu" panel at 
the top, which is very small. That said, if you add 2-3px of padding on 
the left/right of the icon, you are making the NM area in the 
notification area wider than everything else packed into the 
notification area.

This will end up making NM look spaced apart from everything else. I'll 
give it a shot, but what's the point of the extra padding?

Again, NM is the only notification area applet that I have ever seen to 
actually pack a top level menu into its parent widget... all others that 
intend to have button-1 click menus simulate a top level menu using 
popup geometry. See the volume control applet for the best example.

--Aaron

Robert Love wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:49 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
>
>
> > I'd settle for just padding the area of the highlight 2 or 3px around
> > the actual icon of nm-applet, without diminishing the area that the icon
> > can use (which is about 22x22).  I tried to get this myself with theMy apologies for the late reply, been busy with Banshee. This is fairly easy to do, and I'll do it, but I'd like to point out that the icons in NM are already as large as the typical small size of the pannel. Typically users pack the notification area inside the "menu" panel at the top, which is very small. That said, if you add 2-3px of padding on the left/right of the icon, you are making the NM area in the notification area wider than everything else. This will end up making NM look spaced apart from everything else. I'll give it a shot, but what's the point of the extra padding? Again, NM is the only notification area applet that I have ever seen to actually pack a top level menu into its parent widget... all others that intend to have button-1 click menus simulate a top level menu using popup geometry. See the volume control applet for the best example.

--Aaron

Robert Love wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:49 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
>
>
> > I'd settle for just padding the area of the highlight 2 or 3px around
> > the actual icon of nm-applet, without diminishing the area that the icon
> > can use (which is about 22x22).  I tried to get this myself with the
> > patch you sent, but didn't have enough time to investigate why I just
> > couldn't add padding without chopping off bits of the icon.  My gtk-fu
> > weakens with time, my son :)
> >
> > If there's a way to just pad the highlight area _outwards_ then, I'll
> > take that patch (it's not a big deal if the progress bar isn't
> > highlighted ATM, we can deal with that later).
>
>
> My gtk-fu was never so strong, regretfully.
>
> Aaron?   Any ideas?
>
> 	Robert Love
>  

--
Aaron Bockover
Lead Developer, Banshee Project
abockover novell com

> > patch you sent, but didn't have enough time to investigate why I just
> > couldn't add padding without chopping off bits of the icon.  My gtk-fu
> > weakens with time, my son :)
> >
> > If there's a way to just pad the highlight area _outwards_ then, I'll
> > take that patch (it's not a big deal if the progress bar isn't
> > highlighted ATM, we can deal with that later).
>
>
> My gtk-fu was never so strong, regretfully.
>
> Aaron?   Any ideas?
>
> 	Robert Love
>  

--
Aaron Bockover
Lead Developer, Banshee Project
abockover novell com