New look for the dialog headers

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Tue, 02 May 2006 22:13:20 +0200, Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> I'd like to propose a new look for the headers used throughout the
> various dialogs in Xfce, because I think the current way has some
> drawbacks:
> 
> a) it requires a few tricks to change the colors from the hardcoded
> styled ones, because the header box colors are not themable
> separately, and the default ones (using selected for bg and fg) look
> kinda weird with some themes, and
> 
> b) there's no visual separation between the header and the content,
> which also looks odd with several themes, where the selected bg and
> the normal bg colors are very similar (or in general with darker
> themes).
> 
> Therefore I'd like to propose to add a hseparator between the header
> and the content and put the stuff into a separate dialog class with
> style properties for fg/bg, so the colors (and other visual aspects)
> can be changed easily by themes. Also using a separate dialog class
> allows us to change the look later easily (currently the
> create_header function is kinda limited).
> 
> http://foo-projects.org/~benny/tmp/new-header-look.png

I like it.

- Jannis
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