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Warp · Familiar Face Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 13

I'm creating a GtkToolbar which contains GtkToolButtons labelled with text only.

By default it seems that these GtkToolButtons don't have any borders (except when hovering with the mouse). Since these buttons contain text only, it makes the toolbar somewhat confusing because it just looks like one long line of text. It would be much clearer if the buttons had borders.

I can't find any way of telling Gtk to put borders around those buttons. Is there a way?

Micah Carrick · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject:

It's determined by the GTK theme/GTK resource file.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Resource-Files.html

Warp · Familiar Face Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 13

So there's no function I can call to force those borders around the buttons?

Currently it looks quite bad. (Whoever thought that not having borders around buttons was a good idea? *sigh*)

Micah Carrick · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject:

Well, it may seem odd at first, but that's actually one of the benefits of GTK+. The appearance of your GUI applications are determined by the theme. This allows users to customize the app to suite their needs (if they have bad eyes and need larger widgets and higher contrast, etc.)

If you application is going to be deployed as a typical application might-- different systems, screens, platforms, etc. you don't want to specify things like that. However, if it's going to be deployed on a known system (such as a touchscreen for a digital juke box) then you can use a customized gtkrc file.

For your particular issue, why not just use GtkButtons in a GtkHBox? Since you don't seem to be using the toolbar the way a standard toolbar would be.