On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 04:36 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On Mar 4, 2006, at 4:17 AM, Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote: > > ... > > Well, actually there are some other arguments pro statusbar, for > > example it's exteremely useful for resizing. > > ... > > You don't need a status bar to display a resizing grippy. On Mac OS X, > Safari has a resizing grippy even when the status bar is turned off (as > it is by default), Mail has a resizing grippy even though the status > bar (yes it does have one) is at the top of the window instead of the > bottom, and Preview has a resizing grippy even though (like Evince) it > has no status bar at all. When these programs are displaying documents > that don't need vertical scrollbars, the grippy has a transparent > background.
What you can do in Cocoa and what you can do in GTK+ are two entirely different things. Right now, the only way to get a grippy with GTK+ is to have a status bar. Cocoa simply always adds a grippy to resizable windows, and developers design their windows accordingly. That approach isn't feasible in GTK+. What would be nice to have is a way to pack a grippy into the dead space in scrolled windows. Many of us have been asking for more flexible grippy placement, but right now, today, when developing with GTK+, you do need a status bar to display a resizing grippy. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
