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

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Feb 22 11:26:34 UTC 2017


On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:15:22AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:57:52PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So I've just done some tests on TWM and Windows against
> 
> https://github.com/etrunko/virt-viewer/tree/headerbar
> 
> The results are here:
> 
>   https://berrange.fedorapeople.org/virt-viewer-gtk-headerbar/win32/
>   https://berrange.fedorapeople.org/virt-viewer-gtk-headerbar/twm/
> 
> On Win32 the key things are
> 
>  - The about & prefs dialog use the Win32 native style header
>  - The connect dialog & main window use the GNOME headerbar style

BTW, this is running under Windows 2008r2

Regards,
Daniel
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