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[gtk-list] Re: Wish list?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn T Amundson)
Sat May 24 05:03:40 1997

Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 04:03:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: Shawn T Amundson <amundson@cs.umn.edu>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
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On Fri, 23 May 1997, Jamie Honan wrote:
> 
> One that I think would be quite handy is to have the border
> widths and border styles as part of a style rather than
> hard coded with each widget.
> 
> Border styles could include raised, sunken, flat, ridge, and groove.

Yes.  

I've done up a gtk_flat_button for my calendar widget, but I feel
that is not a satisfactory method because it is still not flexible.

If my C where not so sh*tty I'd probably be able to come up with
a patch for this myself.

> Some other code improvements might be to reduce casting. The
> extensive casting will lead to trouble when gtk gets wider use.
> 
> One possibility is to make specific casts e.g. instead of
> GTK_CONTAINER (x) have
> 
> GTK_LIST_ITEM_TO_CONTAINER(x)

This would make programming with GTK harder...

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