Re: Glitches with the GTK toolkit

[Jérôme Marant]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Jérôme Marant <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> BTW, I decided to try the GDB UI, so I reanabled the toolbar.
>> Why, with Athena widgets is the toolbar so ugly? (even since
>> 21.1). There is some kind of empty space at the bottom of
>> icons and I didn't find a way to remove it.
>
> It is an unfortunate effect of the display engine being line based
> rather than pixel based -- meaning that the height of all windows
> (including the toolbar window) in a frame must be a multiple of the
> the default line height.  So the toolbar is padded to make it fulfill
> this requirement.  I have it on my to-do list to fix this, but it will
> not happen anytime soon.

Gosh, I've never suspected that the toolbar was implemented as a frame.
Why so? It sounds a strange idea to me.

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Jérôme Marant