Re: PATCH: unix paragraph dialog fixes

[Thomas Fletcher]

On 6 Oct 2000, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:

> Yes. It would also be nice to make the dialogs more simillar. Right
> now some dialogs have action buttons (ok, cancel, ...) at the bottom,
> others at the right hand side. Seperators, space, and default buttons
> are also used rather randomly.
> 
> I guess the reason that many dialogs are left "good enough" instead of
> "perfect" is that it is a major pain to hand edit the machine
> generated sources. It would be really, really nice if Glade could be
> used to modify the GTK+ GUIs. Then we could have a crisp, consistent
> GUI for GTK+.

I think that consistancy should be key.  As a platform 
maintainer, I'd be willing to go through all of the 
qnx platform dialogs and change them to some sort of 
default look/behaviour if that is what we decide.  It
is certainly a fair bit of work however.

Thomas
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