set_opacity problem (source attached, less than 12 lines)

2012-01-11 Thread Anibal F. Martinez Cortina
Hey list, this is just a simple test dock-like application I was trying to do. Whenever I use Gtk::Window::set_opacity, the transparency, if it's not 1(even 0.99) will make the window entirely transparent. I do realize this is not the correct way to get transparencies, but it's just starting:

gobject-introspection and GBoxed

2012-01-11 Thread jcupitt
Hi all, I'm adding gobject-introspection support to my library. It's working well for the GObject classes, but I just can't get it to work for GBoxed objects. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. Do I need to write an override to make a class for the type myself? I've spent some time googling

RFC: new features

2012-01-11 Thread Benjamin Otte
One thing I've been wondering about is what features GTK is missing. This is mostly about developer-visible APIs, ie new widgets, and not about internal changes. I have some ideas from IRC discussions, mails and applications, but of course there might be big things I'm missing. So personally, I

Re: RFC: new features

2012-01-11 Thread Christian Hergert
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 03:59 +0100, Benjamin Otte wrote: PLOTS This is my personal pet peeve. I often have something I'd like to quickly plot in GTK, but it always ends up being more complicated then I thought, so I either stare at text or use Gnumeric to get my plots. And all the other

Re: RFC: new features

2012-01-11 Thread Jean Brefort
Le jeudi 12 janvier 2012 à 03:59 +0100, Benjamin Otte a écrit : PLOTS This is my personal pet peeve. I often have something I'd like to quickly plot in GTK, but it always ends up being more complicated then I thought, so I either stare at text or use Gnumeric to get my plots. Gnumeric uses

Re: RFC: new features

2012-01-11 Thread Matthew Brush
On 01/11/2012 06:59 PM, Benjamin Otte wrote: [...] And with these caveats, I'll go on and list the features and my personal opinions about them - why they are not yet part of GTK and why they should or should not be. As always, feel free to disagree or list more features that you think might be

Re: RFC: new features

2012-01-11 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Christian Hergert ch...@dronelabs.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 03:59 +0100, Benjamin Otte wrote: PLOTS This is my personal pet peeve. I often have something I'd like to quickly plot in GTK, but it always ends up being more complicated then I thought, so I