Comments on: GTK+ suggestion

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:42:00 +0000

Is there, to your knowledge, a way to turn text labels off entirely via gtkrc?

By: atla

atla — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:25:00 +0000

Yep, actually quite a nice idea i have to admit.

It is a kind of usability having bigger toolbar fields(icon&text) but looks too big by default. I switched text off on all toolbars because they were just too huge.
This does indeed look very nice. I would turn them back on the day it would be available to have it that size.

*thumbs up*

atla

By: Eugenia

Eugenia — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:04:00 +0000

This still does not work for me well, because it makes all fonts inside a notebook to be smaller-text too, not just the labels. For example, the “removable drives and media”.

By: Kitty

Kitty — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:55:00 +0000

After some trials
widget_class "*Notebook.*Label" style "smaller-text"
seems to cover my cases well.
I suppose they subclassed gtklabel in those cases not matched by *Notebook.GtkLabel?

By: Kitty

Kitty — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:26:00 +0000

Just noticed a few side effects: “*Notebook*” works with gedit’s tabs, but it also matches other (unwanted) stuff, e.g. bluefish’s sidebar tree…
It’s been a while since I manipulated my gtkrc files, so I’ll try and find some correct documentation instead of pulling classes names out of thin air.

By: Eugenia

Eugenia — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:45:00 +0000

You actually need this:
widget_class “*Notebook.GtkLabel” style “smaller-text”
However this won’t work with tabs, e.g. Gedit.

By: Kitty

Kitty — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:21:00 +0000

Oops, sorry, I forgot to tag that as code

By: Kitty

Kitty — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:20:00 +0000

I think for tabs text you could add something like:

widget_class “*Notebook*” style “smaller-text”

By: blag

blag — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:38:00 +0000

I really liked the first screenshot you had with the smallest fonts. It really does make quite a difference.

By: felipe

felipe — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:20:00 +0000

Thank you for the answers. The following:

widget_class "*Notebook.GtkLabel" style "smaller-text"

as suggested by Eugenia does the job on most apps (eg. configlets) but not on Epiphany, Gedit, and I suspect others. I’m running some tests to find out the exact name of those widgets.

If you want, here’s a pic of what I’d like to be affected by smaller-text:

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9194/smallertextxq8.png

although i reckon it’s pretty much impossible to generalize