[Users] Using Fancy with Fedora 29 ?

Ricardo Mones ricardo at mones.org
Thu Nov 8 19:32:40 CET 2018


On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 16:49:53 +0100
Andrej Kacian <ticho at claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 16:18:36 +0100
> Ricardo Mones wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 08:10:39PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:  
> > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 14:20:21 +0100
> > > Andrej Kacian <ticho at claws-mail.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello Andrej,
> > >     
> > > >I do not expect us to stop releasing GTK2 version anytime soon, as
> > > >apart from not having Fancy, it is still fully working, and IMHO
> > > >better looking.     
> > > 
> > > Just downloaded, compiled and run the GTK3 branch.  I think you're
> > > right
> > > - GTK3 has a very different, and to my mind, rather clunky appearance
> > > compared with GTK2.  Toolbar buttons, in particular, take massive
> > > amounts of space.    
> > 
> > You may try to change your GTK3 theme and see if it improves.
> > 
> > Default theme makes widgets kinda bulky when you're used to GTK2,
> > perhaps to look better on hi-DPI, but that's just a wild guess of mine.  
> 
> Some widgets have also been redesigned in GTK3 to be intentionally
> bigger. Compare the spin button widgets and how efficiently they use
> space:
> 
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/2.24/spinbutton.png
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.22/spinbutton.png

Well, yes, there's a design component there where the minimalistic
heavily-packed arrows have become two complete buttons.

But to be fair that comparison should have been done with same font
settings, the gtk3 font size is way larger than the gtk2 font ;-)

regards,
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
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