Re: [patch] making the applet stetic.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:34 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> As we all know, being stetic is of the utmost importance:
> 
> 	http://primates.ximian.com/~peter/stetic.html
> 
> The current NetworkManager applet is not as stetic as it deserves to be;
> it has potential, it dreams of a world in which it is the most beautiful
> applet ever, but it is not yet there.
> 
> The progress bars immediately jump out as low-hanging fruit.
> 
> The attached patch replaces the current gtkcellrenderprivate magic with
> Gtk Progress Bars--but not just any progress bars.  Progress bars that
> are dynamically sized based on the font size.  Beautiful, lovely, public
> progress bars.
> 
> The benefits:
> 
> 	- Follows the system theme.  The current Gtkcellrender thing
> 	  is not correctly themed.
> 	- Uses a public API instead of the private in-tree gtk code.
> 	- Nicer looking size.
> 	- Dynamically-sized based on the current language and font
> 	  ascent, to five ascents long and one high.  This elegant
> 	  code is c/o Joey Shaw.
> 	- Net code reduction of -1532 lines, four files.
> 	- Oh, it is sooo stetic.
> 

Applied, thanks.  Brian also suggested making the progress bars not as
tall, so I've made them (ascent / 2).

Dan