G'day, Long time listner, first time caller, so to speak, I've been using gtk for various things through python for a year and a bit now, thanks for the neat toolkit. I'm interested in seeing a new feature added to gtk, a method on all widgets for 'alerting' the user to the widget. This would make the widget blink/glow/throb/sparkle, depending on the gtk theme engine in use. The primary use for this would be to notify the user about some change in the state of the application, for instance a 'wizard' could call alert() on the 'next' button once all fields on the page have been filled in. I can see this being used for things like the pager, when an app changes urgency, or in applets to alert new mail recieved, etc. Perhaps alert could take a level of urgency, form 0 to 2, that the theme could use to alter its alert affect.As all widgets are rectangular, the call would pass the widget dimentions to the theme engine. I don't see this as being purely an eye-candy feature, but something that will enhance the usability of applications built with gtk+. Thanks for your time, -tjs _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
