[maemo-developers] GtkAction vs. AppMenu

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 22:09 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 19:00 +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 05:08:08PM +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> > 
> > > The result now is:
> > > - gtk_toggle_button_new() is working but it displays the buttons as
> > > toggle buttons not as radio buttons.
> > 
> > Well, that's what looks better in the Fremantle UI style.
> 
> Yes, the Hildon HIG seems to suggest this, though it's very vague due to
> the non-native-speaker English and the lack of screenshots (I filed bugs
> about that already):
> http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/beta/hig/html/ch06s08.html

Sorry, that was the wrong section. It's actually not mentioned in the
public Maemo HIG. I filed a bug:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4577

> 
> However, if radio buttons are meant to look a certain way in Maemo, why
> isn't that just a matter of theming or even of making a change in the
> GTK+ code instead of asking people to use the GTK+ API in an abnormal
> way?

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