[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-viewer 00/10] Make dialogs use GtkHeaderBar

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Feb 16 22:57:52 UTC 2017


On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:05:13AM -0200, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
> On 16/02/17 10:06, Pavel Grunt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 17:22 -0200, Eduardo Lima (Etrunko) wrote:
> >> This whole series is the result of the initial idea of having the
> >> new
> >> iso-dialog to use this widget. Having it done only for the iso-
> >> dialog
> >> would not make much sense, so I went on and ported all other
> >> dialogs.
> >> The widget requires Gtk version 3.12, which should not be a problem
> >> for
> >> any recent distro.
> >>
> >> Using GtkHeaderBar makes dialogs look cleaner and more 'modern',
> >> also
> >> follow the style used by GNOME applications. In the near future,
> >> virt-viewer main window could also make use of it, as we recently
> >> saw in
> >> a series sent to this mailing list.
> > 
> > so are we going for the GNOME style for all desktop envs ? In my
> > opinion it does not look nice in Windows and Xfce - simply does not
> > fit it in. iirc it was mentioned that there is a way to have both the
> > classic and the GNOME look in the discussion about Sagar's patches few
> > weeks ago..
> 
> I have no idea of what it looks like in Windows, but it indeed looks
> good in Linux environments. I tested in both GNOME and Enlightenment,
> not sure about other DEs out there. As far as I remember, the discussion
> on that other series was about the classic menu versus the buttons on
> the header bar.

Please post some screenshots showing the before & after state of this
on GNOME, Linux non-GNOME and Windows, so we can accurately evaluate
what the change is.

Also, I tried to apply this series to test it myself, but it fails to
apply to git master for some reason

Regards,
Daniel
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