Fri 2010/Feb/12

• GTK+ tip o'the day.

  Do you have a GtkTable and some row/column is expanding when you don't want it to, and yet all of those row/column's children have EXPAND|FILL turned off? Put a GtkAlignment in the empty slots in that row/column, also with EXPAND|FILL turned off. It seems that GtkTable will let a row/column expand if some of the row/column's slots are empty, regardless of what the other children want.

• This is the old gnome-display-properties:

  

  And this is an improved version:

  

  This is in the display-capplet-ui-cleanup branch.

  With these changes, it should be more obvious which options belong to the currently-selected monitor. The dialog now fits in 640x480 pixels, which is nice for netbooks. The mouse cursor changes to a hand when you move it over the draggable monitors, so the ugly label with instructions is not needed anymore.

Syndicated 2010-02-12 14:17:00 from Federico Mena-Quintero - Activity Log