Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 14:15:37 EDT
> Looking at the screenshots, I would think we're best off with something
> themeable, so that we can make a theme with *very* thin borders and
> titlebars and such... most of those wm's waste a ton of space on window
> decorations.
Yes, an ipaq theme would be great. That's why I'm focusing on the icewm.
But themes are not enough.
In the general case, the gtk widgets use a non-themeable set of spacings
for things for spacing within the file selection dialog, etc. I've gone
through the gtk 1.3.1 lib and cut the default sizings for widgets down
by a lot by draconian cuts in the default border sizes, by halving the
default scrollbar size, etc.
Attached is a screenshot of the slightly revised fileselection widget,
which under a squeezed window manager, fits nicely into 320x200. My
goal is to build a "drop in replacement" gtk lib that recognises when it
is being displayed on a small device and resizes it's widgets
appropriately....
My first hack at this exposed other problems in how default fonts are
chosen in gtk, widget/font sizing in general is problematic. I look
forward very much to the new font extensions.
...
I don't much see the point in a titlebar at all on such a small device,
I'd like most everything to start maximized; and to merely have a single
taskbar at the bottom (overlayable with a on screen keyboard) - and to
have even that scroll away when not in use.
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