Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

Hi!,

On mié, 2010-03-03 at 00:03 +0100, Filippo Argiolas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Filippo Argiolas <fargiolas gnome org> wrote:
> 
> [cut]
> 
> > Well it's not actually the radio functionality that I really care,
> > that's easily implementable. It's more the custom container that can
> > be themed to visually merge together several buttons. Once that's
> > done, the buttons could behave like simple buttons (probably useless),
> > toggle buttons or radio buttons. They would be just the usual buttons
> > into a special container probably.
> 
> Look at Carlos post about theming hackfest too[1]. Point 3 really
> seems to be exactly what I'm talking about.
> 
> 1. http://blogs.gnome.org/carlosg/2009/02/20/dublin-theming-hackfest/

The idea there is that current widgets/containers would be able to tell
theme engines how do painted items visually connect each other. There
would be no need for special containers or buttons, nor hacks in theme
engines such as peeping into the parent widget GType.

Cheers,
  Carlos

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