mojo2012
February 6th, 2010, 12:48 PM
Hi guys,
imho, all GTK widgets are much too big. The ratio between width and height is just a mess. All widgets are too high, especially ,tabs, buttons and comboboxes (which basically are buttons, afaik).
So, I decided to make my own little theme to end this ugliness ;-). I used the theme "eGTK" as template and created "eGTK Simple".
I managed to slim down the whole UI by decreasing all kinds of paddings and thinknesses and stuff like this, BUT: widgets of the same kind don't have the same height ... (look at the included screenshot)!
1) and 2) are both chomboboxes, but 2) is one pixel higher
(Yes, I know, it's just a pixel and 99,9% of all users won't ever notice is -- But I do. And everytime I look at the screen I hate it.
3) and 4) are both buttons. 4) seems to adopt my gtkrc settings, 3) doesn't. 3) should normally have an icon. But I disabled all kind of icons in menus and on buttons. Somehow they seem to still be there and prevent the button from becoming less high.
Any ideas how to resolve these issues?
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The theme can be downloaded here: http://content.wuala.com/contents/mojo2012/Public/Simple%20eGTK.tar.gz?lang=de&dl=1
The widget height changes are not yet included as it simply looks ugly to have different buttons heights.
Here you can see how the theme looks: http://yfrog.com/htegtksimplep
imho, all GTK widgets are much too big. The ratio between width and height is just a mess. All widgets are too high, especially ,tabs, buttons and comboboxes (which basically are buttons, afaik).
So, I decided to make my own little theme to end this ugliness ;-). I used the theme "eGTK" as template and created "eGTK Simple".
I managed to slim down the whole UI by decreasing all kinds of paddings and thinknesses and stuff like this, BUT: widgets of the same kind don't have the same height ... (look at the included screenshot)!
1) and 2) are both chomboboxes, but 2) is one pixel higher
(Yes, I know, it's just a pixel and 99,9% of all users won't ever notice is -- But I do. And everytime I look at the screen I hate it.
3) and 4) are both buttons. 4) seems to adopt my gtkrc settings, 3) doesn't. 3) should normally have an icon. But I disabled all kind of icons in menus and on buttons. Somehow they seem to still be there and prevent the button from becoming less high.
Any ideas how to resolve these issues?
--------------------------------------------------
The theme can be downloaded here: http://content.wuala.com/contents/mojo2012/Public/Simple%20eGTK.tar.gz?lang=de&dl=1
The widget height changes are not yet included as it simply looks ugly to have different buttons heights.
Here you can see how the theme looks: http://yfrog.com/htegtksimplep