Re: [Epiphany] Re: Security prompt dialogs

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 13:43, Crispin Flowerday wrote:
> > Even fixup manually is a better solution because when they will be fixed
> > in gtk it will be trivial to remove the fixups.
> 
> I fail to see how a manual fixup is better than an API with a clean
> interface. I have yet to see _any_ manual fixup that gets all the
> spacings right, if you can find one, then that would be a start.

A clean global api is obviously the solution. Do you really think it's
sane to require every hig compliant app to have custom prompt classes ?!
Manual fixup take some more time but it's much easier to get rid of it
later. Once you have an helper it's a pain (most likely == rewrite). I
really dont think you want to have your own hig alert when gtk will have
one.

> > Being a nice or not isnt really the point. The point is that starting an
> > helper for something that should be obviously shared between
> > applications is pointless.
> 
> It has now been over a year, and there has been no movement from the Gtk
> people on a higgy dialog (of course I may be wrong). Maybe we should
> submit the hig-alert class to the gtk folks and see what they think of
> it :)

It doesnt make much sense to complain about no movement if you did not
try to make things move and adopted an internal solution instead.

I think we agree there is a problem that require a common solution. So,
I dont see what's the point of adopting a galeon only solution,
especially on code that we was supposed to share, and without even
asking our opinion ...

> Don't get me wrong, if there was a better solution we would use it, but
> I am loath to change the dialogs from using the hig-alert to doing all
> the HIG'ification manually.

It's not a tragedy if you get one pixel wrong in a dialog. The HIG point
is not pixel perfection ...

You are obviously free to adopt a bad solution in your project if you
want ;)

Sorry if this sounds flammy, I should have let someone other deal with
it ... I'm still too emotionally involved in events of the past ... ;)

Marci