Re: Freedom

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 11:55 -0400, ArbolOne wrote:
> Now there is much conversation about GTKmm 3.x I would like to bring a 
> point that has been bothering very much. But before I go on I should 
> kiss some behind, you know... protocol.
> I love GTKmm, GTKmm is the best, GTKmm and MS-Win are like that 
> beautiful couple walking down beach to the sunset, bla, bla, bla.
> Now, speaking from the heart, one thing we all agree on is that GTKmm is 
> a solid GUI tool kit and very comfortable for OO programmers. The icing 
> on the cake is glibmm, and those colourful springlike things on the cake 
> can only be expressed as the other libraries like  pangomm and libsigc++ 
> to mention a few.
> Being an important, if not a key component, of the Free Software 
> Foundation, GTKmm should free developers from constrains as to how to 
> display widgets. One of the most annoying constrains I have found is 
> that in MS-Win I am not allow to display pictures on the buttons. Could 
> this be change?

This has to do with GTK+, not gtkmm. Also, it's not inherently
impossible but it's a theme setting, and the default theme on Windows
disables images on buttons. To enable it, set gtk-buttons-images=1 in
share/themes/MS-Windows/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.

Armin