Restore triangle disclosure widget

[Luca Ferretti]

Binary package hint: human-theme

Disclaimer: I wasn't able to found any commit on human-theme module referring to this.

In Lucid the disclosure widget changed from triangle to button with + o -, depending on current status.

I remember a long discussion in GTK+/GNOME regarding this, and the triangles was chosen due to their ability to suggest the users how they are used and to represent the current state. At the contrary, the + & - could carry the ideas of "add" and "remove", leading to misbehaving.

Then, could we please restore triangles?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 25 14:35:36 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
Package: human-theme 0.38
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: human-theme
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686

[Vish (vish)]

I agree , that this is misleading. Unfortunately, murrine does not have an option to change the +/- .

For the expander , we have to use the clearlooks engine or get a good image and use pixmap

[Luca Ferretti (elle.uca)]

Filed upstream against murrine asking to restore triangle or add option.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611159

(Was "Also affects project" link the one to add a link to upstream, wasn't it? It seems I can only link stuff on launchpad)

PS Vish, honestly I dislike the idea to use 2 engines for one theme.

[Vish (vish)]

@Luca Ferretti : Well, i dont think using two engines is better. But I had this same itch and that was the response Cimi gave me ;)

[Vish (vish)]

Ha , just noticed Cimi's comment upstrem ;-)

[Luca Ferretti (elle.uca)]

  ## Use triagle style expander instead misleading +/- from latest murrine
  style "expander-fix" = "default"
  {
   engine "clearlooks" {
  }
  }
  class "GtkExpander" style "expander-fix"
  class "GtkTreeView" style "expander-fix"
  class "GtkCTree" style "expander-fix"

This seems to work, while I've tested in Radiance/Ambiance. :)

PS how can you use GTK+ default theme??? maybe `engine "reileight"`??

[Vish (vish)]

Wishlist , since the current appearance is how the the theme is designed.

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

2010/3/15 Vish <email address hidden>:
> Wishlist , since the current appearance is how the the theme is
> designed.

This is how the theme is designed in/for Ubuntu or how the theme is
designed upstream?

[Luca Ferretti (elle.uca)]

It seems that the following works too, using default gtk+ theme instead clearlooks

style "expander-fix" = "default" {
   engine "" {}
}

[Vish (vish)]

@Milo Casagrande, This is how the light theme is design for Ubuntu.

[Vish (vish)]

This has now been fixed upstream.
Opening Ubuntu task to track the update, once the upstream change lands , the themes can use the new option :
expanderstyle = 0

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Fixed in light-themes 0.1.6.8, Ubuntu Maverick.

[Vish (vish)]

This is fixed in murrine with the release of murrine 0.90.3+git20100810-0ubuntu1 in maverick

[Vish (vish)]

This was fixed in murrine , no change is needed in human theme for this.