Re: [Tile-dev] creating mega-entry (search) widgets?

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

Joe English wrote:
> Last week, Jeff Hobbs wrote:
	...
> It's not necessary to redefine the "MenuEntry" layout in=20
> every available theme -- you can define it just once in the=20
> "default" theme:
	...
> and all other themes will inherit it.
>=20
> Same goes for the MenuEntry.icon element -- you can use:

Thanks for the recommendation.

> The other style settings, OTOH --
>=20
> | style configure MenuEntry -padding $pad
> | style map MenuEntry -image [list disabled ::widget::img_menuentry]
>=20
> *do* need to be respecified in each theme.  I don't have a=20
> good solution for that.

These are actually not used in the latest CVS.  I actually had a =
question on
that ... the -padding that I eventually applied to the MenuEntry.icon =
only
seemed "odd", but it worked across platforms.  Why is that -padding
inconsistent with the general usage?

> [ An aside: here, I'd recommend using a one-part name for the element =
--
>   "menuEntryIcon" instead of "MenuEntry.icon" -- since that's less =
likely
>   to run into conflicts if some other custom widget in some other =
theme
>   defines its own "*.icon" element.  The full ramifications
>   of the theme engine's current fallback/inheritance strategies
>   are not entirely clear at present  :-( ]

I noticed that.  I even tried to go through the code a bit ... =
unsuccessfully.
I'll modify the name, but it would be nice to have this kind of naming =
"work".

Jeff