2005/9/14, Todd Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:48 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 23:45 +0200, Richard Stellingwerff wrote: > > > > > To distinguish Column headers from normal buttons, I check if its > > > parent is a GtkTreeView or a GtkCList. A horrible way, but afaik the > > > only way. > > > In order to properly distinguish a column header from a normal button, > > > I was thinking about setting a name on the column header button, using > > > gtk_widget_set_name. Perhaps something like "Header:First", > > > "Header:Middle", and "Header:Last". > > > > The right way to do it is to add a private API to GtkButton, so that the > > tree view can tell the button which hint to pass to the gtk_paint_*() > > functions. The theme engine will then use this hint to draw the proper > > box type for the tree column's buttons. > > > > Please no. > > The current hacks that 3rd party developers have to go through when they > want to render something that looks like a themed native treeview header > are bad enough
Hacks are always bad. Even if they work. > Although, I guess if this means the hacky stuff theme authors do to see > if the widget's parent is a treeview, or clist, or etree (in clearlooks > case) would be removed, and then widget authors could just pass in the > proper detail to the paint_box calls would end up being a win. But only > once all themes support it, until then, they would have to figure out > which way the theme uses to detect it needs to draw a treeview header > and act accordingly. Are you really suggesting that implementing a good way to do things should be pending on <insert good estimate of amount> hackily implemented themes to be fixed (to the implementation that doesn't exist) or working around those hackily implemented themes? Sounds like a bad suggestion to me. Good themes wwould be fixed promptly anyway (by social pressure or by contributions), bad ones are not that critical ;) I'd definitely go for it. -- Kalle Vahlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list