Re: Freeze break requests for GTK+ and the network panel

[Frederic Crozat <fred crozat net>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Matthias Clasen
<matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> We improved the network panel UI recently by converting it to GtkGrid.
> This uncovered an embarrassing oversight in GTK+ 3:
> The GtkGrid container does not do automatic RTL flipping that people
> have come to expect from GTK+ containers. The result is that the
> network panel is the sole control-center panel that really falls apart
> in RTL locales (see the screenshot in bug 646125).
>
> Adding the flippability to GtkGrid is thankfully a very easy patch,
> see bug 646195. To fully fix the network panel, I also need to make
> another GTK+ 3 addition RTL-safe, the GtkWidget::halign property.
> Doing that requires a minor API addition (two new enumeration values,
> since the existing start/end values are explicitly documented in terms
> of left/right). Doing this is actually safer than reinterpreting
> start/end, since we are guaranteed that the change will only take
> effect in the few places where we start using the new values, ie in
> the network panel. The patch for this can be seen in bug 646196.
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646125
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646195
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646196
>
> I think these patches carry a very small risk, since they only affect
> GTK+ 3 additions, which are not widely used.

RT approval 1/2

-- 
Frederic Crozat