Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: Prefer GTK2 over GTK1 as default

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2004, at 11:49 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:
>
> > First one comes to my mind:
> > the GTK2 standard dialog boxes (e.g. File requester) having the ok 
> > button to the right (as the Gnome user interface guide suggests),
> > but our own dialogs having the cancel button to the right (as GTK1 has).
>
>
> For GTK2, should we use GtkMessageDialog() to implement 
> "simple_dialog()"?
>
> I.e., map ESD_TYPE_WARN to GTK_MESSAGE_WARNING, ESD_TYPE_CRIT to 
> GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR, and EST_TYPE_INFO to GTK_MESSAGE_INFO, map 
> ESD_BTN_CANCEL to GTK_BUTTONS_CANCEL, and map ESD_BTN_OK to 
> GTK_BUTTONS_OK?
>
> Unfortunately, as both of them take a format string and arguments, and 
> as there's no "gtk_vmessage_dialog_new()" taking a "va_list" as an 
> argument, we'd have to do that by having "simple_dialog()" still do 
> the formatting, and pass "GtkMessageDialog()" a format string of "%s" 
> and an argument of the generated message.
>
> We should perhaps also consider using GTK2's 
> "gtk_dialog_new_with_buttons()" for other dialogs that have OK, 
> Cancel, etc. buttons.
I don't wanted to say that's impossible to do, but as we now have quite 
a lot dialogs,
and all of them has to be changed (with a GTK1 and a GTK2 version), this 
will be quite a lot of work :-(

And to be honest, I don't like that approach at all, as this isn't usual 
for win32 user (and KDE I think).
Maybe it would be better to not use the standard dialogs at all, so we 
could switch between gnome and win32 (KDE) layout
by a preference setting.

Another problem comes to my mind:
the GTK2 font selection cannot filter between fixed-width and 
non-fixed-width fonts.
The current GTK1 dialog will show only the fixed-width fonts (using some 
GTK filtering),
this functionality isn't available in GTK2.
There seem's to be no solution for this :-(

Regards, ULFL