[Freeciv-Dev] Re: connect dialog ver 3 (PR#1911)

[Daniel L Speyer <dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 Nov 2002, Davide Pagnin wrote:
> [snip] 
> 1) Impression of the first choice menu:
> With my gtk theme in the choose nation dialog, when you choose the
> nation, around the flag there is a blue selection evidence, that hurts
> me, but it is acceptable.
> But in this first choice menu this blue selection evidence, gets a third
> of the whole dialog, and is VERY annoying. 
> Someone gtk skilled, can reduce the 'selection' border.
> [snip]

While usually I support trying to make everyone happy, I have to call
fixing this a bad idea.  Back with the nation select dialog, I played with
undercutting GTK.  It constantly caused trouble, and produced hideously
theme-dependant results.  In GTK, like HTML, the coder specifies logical
structure, and the user (through the theme) specifies the exact visual
appearance.

The aesthetically right solution is to modify the offensive theme.  Trying
to fight the theme will result in greater troubles for people with
different themes and tastes, and make machine-processing of the dialog
much harder.

--Daniel Speyer
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