[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Mac OS X [Leopard] Titlebar / toolbar lo

[Justin Dolezy <justin_dolezy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joachim,

Re statusbar - I guess you'd like it to look more like a 'bottom bar'?

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGWindows/chapter_18_section_4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000961-SW6

Guess 

that'd be worth raising as a bug too. Not sure how that would work - 
some sort of status bar style perhaps.

Justin

On 2008-03-11 09:39:06 +0000, Joachim Schuster <joachim.schuster@xxxxxx> said:

> Hi Justin,
> you are absolutely right! I also wondered how to achieve the unified 
> appearance.
> There are several other little things different which causes a none 
> native look, e.g. the resize control resp. a Statusbar.
>
> Does anyone know where to discuss this topics to find a way to solve it?
> Will the future cocoa swt implementation fix those issues?
>
> Regards,
> Joachim
>
>
> Justin Dolezy schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Toolbars on Mac OS X Leopard now have a unified appearance with the 
> > titlebar - ie there's no visual distinction between the toolbar and the 
> > titlebar. The Toolbar section of this doc shows exactly what I'm 
> > referring to:
> >
> > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGWindows/chapter_18_section_4.html


I'm 
> > writing an RCP based app and the toolbar just looks so out of place, 
> > like a Windows toolbar with a different colour palette :)  Now I'm 
> > guessing the root issue is the SWT coolbar implementation? Hence I'm 
> > posting here.
> >
> > So, is it possible for SWT to incorporate this on OS X Leopard somehow? 
> > This would make SWT apps look so much more 'native' on the Mac. Perhaps 
> > this is already on someone's todo list?!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Justin