On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:50:07AM -0700, John Boncek wrote: > > GTK/Pango draws text embossed in insensitive buttons. The result, in our > opinion, is that insensitive buttons look much better than sensitive > buttons. This leads to an inconsistent overall appearance. > > http://www.nabble.com/file/3875/buttons.png > > I've done a *lot* of reading thru GTK and Pango documentation and on the > internet. I've found others complaining about this but can find no > solution. We would like to either be able to turn this off or to turn on > embossing for all buttons. The color would still clearly indicate which > buttons are sensitive.
The implementation of a new GtkWidget style property switching on/off the shadow is approximately as long as your e-mail -- you just need to register it and change the if around the first gdk_draw_layout() call in gtk_default_draw_layout(), and possibly the same in gtk_default_draw_string() for backward compatibility. Make a patch, post to bugzilla... However, this raises questions: - would it really improve anything? if people complain about embossed labels without trying the non-embossed look, does it tell anything (beside the fact they don't care that much)? see http://kf.fyz.fce.vutbr.cz/~yeti/tmp/gtk-no-emboss.png in my opinion the labels are invisible in the first theme (6nome-sandy) while they are not distinct enough from sensitive labels in the second one (default), so the overall result is degradation - you talk about buttons, what makes them different from other labels? (actually, the suggested option could apply to any widget) - the embossed style is consistent with separators and other stuff, what about them? you talk about consistency, but don't seem to take consistency seriously - how many people will actually set this option if implemented? [rant]can't you three just patch Gtk+ source and recompile?[/rant] Yeti -- Whatever. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
