Re: GTK

From: Philip Blundell <pb.a.t.nexus.co.uk>
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 06:52:51 EDT

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 21:02, Robert Mibus wrote:
> What stuff from 'squashed' is worth keeping?

I'm not sure exactly. The only really heinous things I know about in
big GTK are:

 - GtkEntry boxes have a minimum width of 150 pixels. This is also
overridden in libgpewidget so you won't see the problem with GPE
programs, but it can be pretty bad for others.

 - GtkFIleSelection, and maybe the font selector widget too. These are
definitely unusable in their standard form on an ipaq-sized screen; I'm
not sure how good they are even when squashed. It might be worth
investigating whether libgpewidget's minifilesel could be made into a
compatible replacement for GtkFileSelection.

Most of the other stuff in squashed gtk seems to be semi-arbitrary
tweaking of stuff like icon sizes and border widths. Some of it is
actively detrimental - for example, the arrow icons that GtkNotebook
uses to scroll its tab list are so small in squashed mode as to be
almost impossible to use with a touchscreen - and some of it is just
ugly, like the radio buttons you mentioned before.

p.
Received on Mon Jul 22 10:52:56 2002

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