[Glade-devel] Vote on style editor

[Murray Cumming]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:41 -0500, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> Hi all,
>     This is a feature that some of us have been wanting for a while now.
> The basic idea is to have a method to optionaly generate gtkrc files 
> as well as glade files for GUIs with specialized themes (possibly
> by adding a "Style" tab to the editor).
> 
> The main argument against this is that it may interfere with theming 
> consistancy in the desktop environment.
> 
> A developer shouldn't use GtkFixed for thier desktop applications, but OTOH
> GtkFixed is the ideal solution for a target machine with a fixed resolution

I don't think anybody ever writes software for a fixed resolution.
There's always a new generation of the target hardware.

>  and
> a full-screen application with a custom theme, the majority of Gtk+ application
> developer may never use GtkFixed, but IMO it would be wrong to exclude
> GtkFixed from Gtk+.

I do hope we can hide GtkFixed completely from Glade.

> My standpoint here is that the theme editor should get in, but it has
> to be clear
> to the user that using custom themes will make there application have a 
> different look-n-feel than the rest of the desktop if they were to use a custom 
> theme.
> 
> Please send in your views on integration of Style editing in glade-3.

If you can list some situations when a user would need to use this then
I could have an opinion. Otherwise, you are encouraging people to do bad
things without a reason. Like generating code.

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Murray Cumming
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