qt vs gtk

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas Stover
With the recent news that Nokia will be releasing QT under LGPL, I'm seeing allot of knee-jerk anti-GTK comments out there. I know I'm preaching to the choir on this list, but for the sake of moral I thought I would post my 2 cents on the matter. -I can't think of single QT application I even

RE: qt vs gtk

2009-01-14 Thread Andersen, Jan
As someone who has recently stopped using GNOME, let me give my viewpoint, then, about why I have stopped using it. It isn't so much knee-jerk, I would hope, as simple, everyday usefulness. It was not an easy decision for me to leave and start using KDE - I have used GNOME from the beginning

Re: qt vs gtk

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Torrie
Andersen, Jan wrote: 1. X used to display a small label containing the position and size of a window when you moved it. That was one feature I found hugely useful; I usually have 9 desktops and organise my applications with fixed dimensions and positions different desktops - like Pidgin on

Re: qt vs gtk

2009-01-14 Thread Jack
This is a whole different issue - Gnome vs KDE vs other desktops. I believe the original question was gkt+ vs qt. I use a number of gtk based apps on a KDE based desktop. (Isn't KDE based on QT? It shows how long it's been since I paid attention at that level.) There have been some

Re: change the Dashed border

2009-01-14 Thread winc03_sub
Zhenghe, There is a gtk style focus-line-pattern that defines the bit pattern of the dashed line. You can set this in an rc file that your app loads, as follows: style focus_style { GtkWidget::focus-line-pattern = \0 } class GtkWidget style focus_style HTH, Andy -- Original

Re: qt vs gtk

2009-01-14 Thread Iain *
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Jack ostrof...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I believe the original question was gkt+ vs qt. I don't believe there was a question And this is all fairly offtopic for this list. So lets stop it now before it gets silly. iain ___

set_resize

2009-01-14 Thread Pietro Battiston
Hello, the documentation for gtk_widget_size_request () says: Also remember that the size request is not necessarily the size a widget will actually be allocated. While there may be a lot of reasons why a widget doesn't get the area requested, I imagine(d) the basic one would be because there

Re: Menu bar items without icon indent

2009-01-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:13 +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 22:56 -0500, Yu Feng wrote: I've just written a similar widget. You should subclass GtkMenuItem, override toggle_size_request, return zero to the *requistion parameter. implement the creation methed

Re: set_resize

2009-01-14 Thread markku . vire
Hi, Quoting Pietro Battiston too...@email.it: the documentation for gtk_widget_size_request () says: Also remember that the size request is not necessarily the size a widget will actually be allocated. While there may be a lot of reasons why a widget doesn't get the area requested, I

Re: set_resize

2009-01-14 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mer, 14/01/2009 alle 15.19 +0200, markku.v...@iki.fi ha scritto: Hi, Quoting Pietro Battiston too...@email.it: the documentation for gtk_widget_size_request () says: Also remember that the size request is not necessarily the size a widget will actually be allocated.

Re: Menu bar items without icon indent

2009-01-14 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: There is a comment in the above file regarding why they want this same behaviour that I did, along the lines: We want the title menu items for each RANDR output to span the *whole* allocation of the menu item, not just the

Re: Menu bar items without icon indent

2009-01-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 09:19 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: There is a comment in the above file regarding why they want this same behaviour that I did, along the lines: We want the title menu items for each RANDR

Re: set_resize

2009-01-14 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2009/1/14 Pietro Battiston too...@email.it: Hello, the documentation for gtk_widget_size_request () says: Also remember that the size request is not necessarily the size a widget will actually be allocated. While there may be a lot of reasons why a widget doesn't get the area requested, I

Re: set_resize

2009-01-14 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno mer, 14/01/2009 alle 17.20 +0200, Kalle Vahlman ha scritto: 2009/1/14 Pietro Battiston too...@email.it: I would have filed a bug (asking for windows to clip to screen when their their size_request is too big*), but it's obviously a major issue, so obviously it can't be true that

Re: set_resize

2009-01-14 Thread Markku Vire
Hi, 0On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 17:00 +0100, Pietro Battiston wrote: Forcibly clipping window size would anyway only be band-aid to the real problem in the application, which can be: ... - it doesn't constrain the size of a dynamically resizing widget I don't see how this is a problem;

Re: set_resize

2009-01-14 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2009/1/14 Pietro Battiston too...@email.it: Il giorno mer, 14/01/2009 alle 17.20 +0200, Kalle Vahlman ha scritto: 2009/1/14 Pietro Battiston too...@email.it: I would have filed a bug (asking for windows to clip to screen when their their size_request is too big*), but it's obviously a major