[Usability]Re: Toolbar issue esthetics.

[Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr>]

You did something wrong. Presumably you simply applied the patch that is
listed in the comment, and didn't change the GtkToolbar::shadow-type
style property to be GTK_SHADOW_NONE by default. The patch for gtk+ that
is listed as an attachment in bugzilla gets rid of the inner bevel
entirely, and setting the GtkToolbar::shadow-type to GTK_SHADOW_NONE in
your gtk/gtktoolbar.c or in your gtkrc, will cause the inner bevel to
disappear. The inner bevel is the current behaviour of GtkToolbar, and
the second patch in that bug ONLY fixes the issue of having the
bottom/right edges of that bevel draw in the wrong places.

-- dobey

On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 02:59, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As some of you recall I made an UI review some months ago 
> http://www.gnome.org/~chrisime/random/ui/ where I reviewed the esthetical 
> Toolbar issue related to GTK+, libgnomeui and libbonoboui. I saw that Rodney 
> Dawes made some patches that claim to solve these issues which can be found 
> here http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2003-March/msg00007.html. I 
> have played with these patches some hours ago, patched the necessary modules 
> from CVS head and re-compiled the libs.
> 
> The result was pretty much 'unesthetical' and imo more wrong (from look and 
> feel) than it is now. It may have changed the issues of the broken look of 
> the Toolbars but now added another bevel around that Toolbar which looks 
> pretty much like the picture on the attachment (Gnumeric Toolbar). If we deal 
> with 2-3 Toolbars and the default GTK+ Theme then this looks quite stupid. 
> Later on in one of the bugreport comments it was also suggested to revisit 
> the Menu too and this probably means paint a bevel around it as well.
> 
> Wouldn't it make more sense changing the Toolbars to the default look of the 
> ones from libbonoboui which gives a FLAT feeling of the Toolbar. This is far 
> more esthetical. Not to mention that the patches from dobey cause entry 
> widgets to paint over the inner bevel as you can se ein the picture too.
> 
> Feedback welcome.
>