On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:34 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> As we all know, being stetic is of the utmost importance:
> 
>       http://primates.ximian.com/~peter/stetic.html
> 
> The current NetworkManager applet is not as stetic as it deserves to be;
> it has potential, it dreams of a world in which it is the most beautiful
> applet ever, but it is not yet there.
> 
> The progress bars immediately jump out as low-hanging fruit.
> 
> The attached patch replaces the current gtkcellrenderprivate magic with
> Gtk Progress Bars--but not just any progress bars.  Progress bars that
> are dynamically sized based on the font size.  Beautiful, lovely, public
> progress bars.
> 
> The benefits:
> 
>       - Follows the system theme.  The current Gtkcellrender thing
>         is not correctly themed.
>       - Uses a public API instead of the private in-tree gtk code.
>       - Nicer looking size.
>       - Dynamically-sized based on the current language and font
>         ascent, to five ascents long and one high.  This elegant
>         code is c/o Joey Shaw.
>       - Net code reduction of -1532 lines, four files.
>       - Oh, it is sooo stetic.
> 

Applied, thanks.  Brian also suggested making the progress bars not as
tall, so I've made them (ascent / 2).

Dan

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