Re: [Evolution-hackers] Alert Dialog API

2004-02-04 Thread JP Rosevear
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 19:53, Not Zed wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:30 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 23:46, Not Zed wrote: > > > umm, we already have e_notice, which covers 90% of uses of such > > > dialogues, and the api is nicer. the other thing we have in the mailer > >

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Alert Dialog API

2004-02-04 Thread Not Zed
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:30 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 23:46, Not Zed wrote: > > umm, we already have e_notice, which covers 90% of uses of such > > dialogues, and the api is nicer. the other thing we have in the mailer > > is one that can lookup a boolean gconf key to do 'd

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Alert Dialog API

2004-02-04 Thread JP Rosevear
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 23:46, Not Zed wrote: > umm, we already have e_notice, which covers 90% of uses of such > dialogues, and the api is nicer. the other thing we have in the mailer > is one that can lookup a boolean gconf key to do 'do not show me this > again' stuff, and handle all the details,

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Alert Dialog API

2004-02-03 Thread Not Zed
umm, we already have e_notice, which covers 90% of uses of such dialogues, and the api is nicer. the other thing we have in the mailer is one that can lookup a boolean gconf key to do 'do not show me this again' stuff, and handle all the details, it could just as easily, using the same api, ask a

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Alert Dialog API

2004-02-03 Thread Rodney Dawes
On Mar , 2004-02-03 at 20:17, Dave Malcolm wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 18:55, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > So, my current thoughts on writing the API for the HIG-compliant alert > > dialogs, is that there will be a generic API call for creating custom, > > and/or extended alert dialogs, and some simp

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Alert Dialog API

2004-02-03 Thread Dave Malcolm
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 18:55, Rodney Dawes wrote: > So, my current thoughts on writing the API for the HIG-compliant alert > dialogs, is that there will be a generic API call for creating custom, > and/or extended alert dialogs, and some simplistic API calls for popping > up simple dialogs to alert

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Alert Dialog API

2004-02-03 Thread Dan Winship
> GtkWidget * e_alert_dialog_new (const gchar * summary, >const gchar * message, >GtkMessageDialogType alert_type, >GtkWindow * parent); Eww. gchar. e_notice lets you do a printf-style message, which

[Evolution-hackers] Alert Dialog API

2004-02-03 Thread Rodney Dawes
So, my current thoughts on writing the API for the HIG-compliant alert dialogs, is that there will be a generic API call for creating custom, and/or extended alert dialogs, and some simplistic API calls for popping up simple dialogs to alert the user of an error, warning, or a simple informational