[wxPython-users] Appearance of Native GTK+2 Widgets

[Murat Erten]

2007/1/28, Richard Terry <rterry at internode.on.net>:
> Welcome to the wonderful world of visually erratic/behaviourally erratic GTK+2
> widgits.
>
> A source of constant annoyance to me, no-one much else on the list seems to
> find it a problem, maybe its our collective installation!
>
> I find really weird stuff, I've posted many of my observations, some
> acknowledged, some not eg
>
> Static control not centering (a bug - Robin says will get fixed, I've yet to
> post a request).
>
> The wx.choice when used on my machine once you click on a row the text goes
> white and stays invisible.
>
> The combo popup is a mile high (up my screen for some reason).
>
> Lists - as the font size decreases the row sizes do not, hence huge waste of
> screen real-estate or funny looking lists. Maybe that one's been fixed.
>
> Sizers continue to amaze/annoy/confound me.
>
> Rich text control seems not to load rich text files.
>
> No I'm not really complaining, just observing, as I know Robin and the crew
> work tirelesslessy for our benefit, but I wonder just how many develop on
> windows and not linux so they don't encounter these problems.
>
> Probably the plethora of widgets makes up for these deficiencies.
>
> Happy to share my experiences with you/questions if you mail me directly if
> you wish.
>
> Regards
>
> Richard Terry
> General Practitioner
> NSW Australia.
>
>
> On Sunday 28 January 2007 09:07, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >    If there is a more appropriate list for this question, please point me
> > to it.
> >
> >    There are a couple of widget behaviors I see on my application using
> > wxPython-2.8.0.1 that do not seem proper. Specifically, on a notebook page
> > with a tree control, root's label is very faint until I click on it, and
> > when I click on the arrow button of a combo box, the list grows up to the
> > top of the screen instead of dropping down.
> >
> >    I looked on the GTK+ web site but found no screenshots or other displays
> > of native widget behavior except for the Glade page that showed the tree
> > control (with no lines, which is OK) but with a highlight across the width
> > of the widget's window for the highlighted item.
> >
> >    Are these the normal appearances now? The list growing up instead of
> > down I can get used to. But, the faint tree root label until it -- or
> > another item -- is clicked is distracting.
> >
> >    Has anyone else seen this?
> >
> > Rich
>
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By the way I observe that DatePickerCtrl has some empty space under it on gtk2.