Comments on: Rounded boxes in gtk

By: IBCBET

IBCBET — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:53:32 +0000

You should be made by user with GTK for themes.

By: เสื้อผ้าแฟชั่นเกาหลี

เสื้อผ้าแฟชั่นเกาหลี — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:25:40 +0000

You can pull all the gtk theme colors using the style property available to your widget.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:35:54 +0000

Dude, seriously. GTK is there to give you a box that conveys that its contents are a semantic unit. It’s not there because “oh it would be so nice to have rounded edges”. That’s something that is a subjective judgement and should be made by the user in their GTK theme choice. As a programmer you should respect your users enough to consider giving them clean efficient software and the choice of how it looks instead of bloating your program with hacks to circumvent a system that enables users to have their programs appear in the fashion they find most attractive and usable.

By: Ryan Paul

Ryan Paul — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:00:42 +0000

In an earlier version of Gwibber, before I started using WebKit, I actually did the round boxes manually with Cairo. It was a bit of a pain and it was hard to get it to look right. You can see the code here: http://is.gd/4SNy2

Qt’s support for CSS theming makes it trivially easy to do this with native widgets. It’s unfortunate that GTK+ is so far behind in this area.

By: Luca Bruno

Luca Bruno — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:04:23 +0000

Use Cairo or Clutter.

By: Jason Smith

Jason Smith — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:46:02 +0000

Yeah I did not mean to imply the code I pasted would at all follow the gtk theme, however the example screenshot he posted did not do that either so I went for the simplest possible approach.

You can pull all the gtk theme colors using the style property available to your widget, which will give you all the colors you need. gtk_paint_box works too, but it wont give you consistent results, plus learning cairo is fun!

By: Hylke

Hylke — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:16:08 +0000

Actually, the corners of the two rectangles (it looks like it’s being build as a rectangle in a rectangle instead of a rectangle with a border) are perfectly round, but the inner rectangle’s radius is too small it seems, so it looks really weird.

By: rectangelo

rectangelo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:02:04 +0000

@Hylke: Out of curiosity… I have read about rounded corners on http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=435 but I still feel stupid. Is there a blog post that explains the rounded corners issue for a non-designer? What are correct rounded corners? As a developer I’m always willing to learn.

By: Hylke

Hylke — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:19:53 +0000

Sorry, but those aren’t rounded corners

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:57:35 +0000

Just remember that some of us like boring looking applications. One thing I like about gtk+ apps is that they do all look really similar. I don’t know if it has any actual benefit (perhaps it helps you concentrate on the bits that are actually different? perhaps it lets one person with a good sense of taste make the whole thing pretty?), but looking like every other application is not the end of the world