| ID: | 5344 |
| From: | Majenko Technologies <ma...@majenko.co.uk> |
| Date: | Sun, 14 Nov 2021 11:00:44 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] resize grip widget removal (was: poll: how do you |
| in-reply-to: | 5343 from rn...@igor2.repo.hu |
--0000000000004acc0605d0bd9bed Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" TBH if you hadn't highlighted this widget I wouldn't have even known it existed, and not lamented its disappearance... On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 8:48 AM <rnd2@igor2.repo.hu> wrote: > Hi all, > > in the last poll thread I asked about how you resize pcb-rnd top window. > Many of our power users replied so I think we have a rather nice, probably > representative input on this. > > I intentionally made the question vague to remove the bias for "do not > remove any feature, even if I don't use it, who knows, maybe I will". > > And this feature is the "resize grip widget". It is present only in the > gtk2 HID. It's a few slanted lines on the bottom right corner of the > window. You could use it to resize or move the window, but according to > the poll it's not a popular way over other, per window manager standard > methods. > > This is important because during the gtk4 effort I found it would be > tricky to port this feature to gtk4. > > So my plan is: we will not have it in gtk4 at all. Then some random time I > will also remove it from gtk2 because it's bad practice to have a GUI > feature that is not native to the given toolkit and is present only in one > HID but not the others. > > (In scope of widgets, we have two HIDs at the moment: lesstif and gtk2, > and we are getting a 3rd HID, gtk4. Gtk2 gl and gdk differ only in > rendering, widget-wise the code is the same so they count as one. Gtk4 > will share some code with gtk2 but will be a different HID because a lot > of widget details differ.) > > Best regards, > > Igor2 > > > > > > > > > -- *Matt Jenkins* Majenko Technologies https://majenko.co.uk --0000000000004acc0605d0bd9bed Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">TBH if you hadn't highlighted this widget I wouldn'= ;t have even known it existed, and not lamented its disappearance...<br></d= iv><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On = Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 8:48 AM <<a href=3D"mailto:rnd2@igor2.repo.hu">rnd2= @igor2.repo.hu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" st= yle=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padd= ing-left:1ex">Hi all,<br> <br> in the last poll thread I asked about how you resize pcb-rnd top window. <b= r> Many of our power users replied so I think we have a rather nice, probably = <br> representative input on this.<br> <br> I intentionally made the question vague to remove the bias for "do not= <br> remove any feature, even if I don't use it, who knows, maybe I will&quo= t;.<br> <br> And this feature is the "resize grip widget". It is present only = in the <br> gtk2 HID. It's a few slanted lines on the bottom right corner of the <b= r> window. You could use it to resize or move the window, but according to <br= > the poll it's not a popular way over other, per window manager standard= <br> methods.<br> <br> This is important because during the gtk4 effort I found it would be <br> tricky to port this feature to gtk4.<br> <br> So my plan is: we will not have it in gtk4 at all. Then some random time I = <br> will also remove it from gtk2 because it's bad practice to have a GUI <= br> feature that is not native to the given toolkit and is present only in one = <br> HID but not the others.<br> <br> (In scope of widgets, we have two HIDs at the moment: lesstif and gtk2, <br= > and we are getting a 3rd HID, gtk4. Gtk2 gl and gdk differ only in <br> rendering, widget-wise the code is the same so they count as one. Gtk4 <br> will share some code with gtk2 but will be a different HID because a lot <b= r> of widget details differ.)<br> <br> Best regards,<br> <br> Igor2<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </blockquote></div><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"g= mail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><b>Matt Jenkins</b><= div>Majenko Technologies</div><div><a href=3D"https://majenko.co.uk" target= =3D"_blank">https://majenko.co.uk</a></div></div></div></div></div> --0000000000004acc0605d0bd9bed--
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