On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
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Good point about the shortcut. The reason for making it smaller was because I viewed the help icon less important than the close button (you are more likley to hit the close button it more times than the close button). I actually realised there are no help document for the preferences dialog, so right now we shouldn't have this button at all at this point. :)
The reason I choose to do it without the icon in the button is that it look stupid on all other platforms than GNOME. Neither OSX, Windows or KDE normally use icons in buttons.
You aren't the only one who feels this way but I believe themes are the way people are expected to deal with this.
Gtk is a cross platform toolkit and efforts are being made to better enabled applications to integrate with the native enviroment (including things like button order switching).
- Alan