From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gtk patch version 3, part 1 Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 19:48:42 +0100 (MET) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200301011944.h01Jim0U011400@stubby.bodenonline.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041455955 9381 80.91.224.249 (1 Jan 2003 21:19:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 21:19:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18TqGe-0002R2-00 for ; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 22:19:12 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18TqIS-0002d4-00 for ; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 22:21:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Tq22-0001vJ-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 16:04:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Tnvd-0006vK-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 13:49:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Tnva-0006rZ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 13:49:20 -0500 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com ([193.201.16.94]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18TnvW-0006jP-00; Wed, 01 Jan 2003 13:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from accessno42.bodenonline.com (IDENT:root@accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44]) h01Jim0U011400; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:44:49 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: from "Richard Stallman" at jan 01, 2003 11:46:23 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10397 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10397 > > + @cindex GTK customize, @file{~/.gtkrc-2.0} file > > This is too long for an index entry. Also, they > don't belong in the same entry. They should be two entries. Okay, I just copied the layout from these index entries at the top of the file: @cindex X resources, @file{~/.Xdefaults} file @cindex X resources, @file{~/.Xresources} file > > See documents at > + @uref{http://www.gtk.org/} for that. > > It is not good to refer to a web site for documentation purposes. > Please refer to something that can be included in the user's machine. Do you mean "that the user can include into his machine" or "something that might be on the users machine already"? If the second, can I refer to /usr/share/gtk-doc, where the GTK documentation is usually installed? > + Note that this is only for customizing specific GTK widget features. > + To customize Emacs font, background, faces e.t.c., use the normal > + X Resources, see @ref{Resources}. > > To make this useful, it is important to be at least a little more > specific about which aspects to customize through GTK and which > through X resources. If you can do this clearly with a description, > that is fine; otherwise you could use a list. It is given by the GTK documentation, is it OK to just refer to that? > The word "resources" is an ordinary noun, so don't capitailze it. > It should be "etc.", not "e.t.c." Changed. > > + For dialogs a GtkDialog is used. > > Please avoid the passive voice, here and everywhere, unless > it is absolutely necessary. How about Dialogs in Emacs are GtkDialog widgets. > + @example > + widget_class "GtkWindow.GtkVBox.GtkFixed.GtkVScrollbar" style "my_style" > + @end example > > That line is very long. It might work ok if you use @smallexample > instead of @example. Please do that for all the examples in the > section; inconsistency looks bad. > > Can this be written as two lines? It must be one line in the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file, so I would like to avoid changing it. > + So the two full paths above are in Emacs the same as: > > That's not very clear language. How about > > Thus, for Emacs you can write the two examples above as: > > if that is what you mean. Yes it is, thanks. Jan D.