Re: [rox-devel] [patch] Pinboard icons text attributes.

[Joakim A. <joa...@gm...>]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:29:15 +0100
Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 11:06:55PM +0200, Krzysztof Luks wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 23:08, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> > 
> > > > While playing with Pango's text attributes I implemented
> > > > configurable text attributes for pinboard icon labels. Right now
> > > > it is possible to switch text to bold and turn on underline on
> > > > mouse-over. While the latter is mostly eye-candy (though one day
> > > > it may evolve into something more useful) bold text IMO greatly
> > > > improves text readability on colorful backgrounds. Adding
> > > > background to icon's label would improve the readability even
> > > > more and I'm going to implement it during next few days.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps it would be better to let the user choose the font, rather
> > > than just the weight? Then they can set the size as well, and the
> > > style. The default should be to follow the current Gtk default, of
> > > course...
> > 
> > Well, here it goes. It is now possible to change font family, size
> > and weight. Also the user can set icon label background colour.
> 
> A few quick thoughts:
> 
> - I don't think hover should be an option. Either we should always use
> it,
>   or not have it at all (depending on what people want). It's not
>   important enough to complicate the options box further.
> 
> - Is there any point having a separate label colour? Just use the
> pinboard
>   background colour (which is only used when there's no backdrop
>   anyway).
> 
> - You don't need a weight option. The font selector already lets the
> user
>   choose the weight.
> 
> > I don't know however how to get gtk default font. For now I hard
> > coded'Sans 8' as the default. Could you point me to some useful
> > function for getting default fonts? :)
> 
> gtk_widget_get_default_style()->font? Better, just don't set the font
> attribute unless the user wants it...
> 

I may be totally out of line here, but may I suggest something? Since
Rox uses icons for both desktop shortcuts and minimized windows, it can
be confusing which one is which. How about having non-shaped,
rectangular icon windows like MWM/CDE has? Besides from IMO looking
good, the look of the icons as smaller windows clearly separates them
from desktop shortcuts, which would be more intuitive.

Regards,
Joakim

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