The About box is where it showed up most obviously that I'd hastily
bunged a GtkBox inside another GtkBox without considering their
margins: the 'action area' had twice the margin it should have had and
the rightmost button didn't align with the right edge of the rest of
the window contents.
Easily fixed by giving the inner hbox margin 0 (fixing the right align
and the excessive space around all the buttons), and using the
'spacing' property of GtkBox to ensure multiple buttons in it are
nicely separated without having to take care over that in the client
code that adds them.
gtk_misc_set_alignment was deprecated in GTK 3.14. But my replacement
code using gtk_label_set_xalign doesn't work there, because that
function wasn't introduced until GTK 3.16, so there are two minor
versions in the middle where a third strategy is needed.
When I abandoned GtkDialog for GtkWindow (in dc11417ae), I manually
added a horizontal GtkSeparator between the content and action areas.
Or rather, I tried to - but I forgot that gtk_box_pack_end works in
the opposite order, so that you have to add the bottom-most element
first and then the one you want to appear above it. So my separator
was below the action area, rather than between it and the content
area.
Several utility functions I've written over the last few weeks were in
rather random places because I didn't have a central gtkmisc.c to put
them in. Now I've got one, put them there!
They've now deprecated gtk_dialog_get_action_area, because they really
want a dialog box's action area to be filled with nothing but buttons
controlled by GTK which end the dialog with a response code. But we're
accustomed to putting all sorts of other things in our action area -
non-buttons, buttons that don't end the dialog, and sub-widgets that
do layout - and so I think it's no longer sensible to be trying to
coerce our use cases into GtkDialog.
Hence, I'm introducing a set of wrapper functions which equivocate
between a GtkDialog for GTK1 and GTK2, and a GtkWindow with a vbox in
it for GTK3, and I'll lay out the action area by hand.
(Not everything has sensible layout and margins in the new GTK3 system
yet, but I can sort that out later.)
Because the new functions are needed by gtkask.c, which doesn't link
against gtkdlg.c or include putty.h, I've put them in a new source
file and header file pair gtkmisc.[ch] which is common to gtkask and
the main GTK edifice.