Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] No frame resize control ?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 11:31:03 -0700 (PDT)
> I finally got ethereal 8-18 running on some old boxes with RedHat 7.1
> and Gnome.  It appears to function correctly except that I don't have an
> ability to resize the three window frames within the GUI display.  I can
> resize the entire window and the three frames scale proportionately but
> there doesn't seem to be a control point to resize the frames.  ????

In GTK+ 1.2[.x], paned windows have Motif's crappy user interface, which
I think it inherited from the Athena Widgets crappy user interface.

I.e., the only resizing control point is a stupid little box on the
right-hand edge of the sash between the panes; look for a small square
raised box, which should be almost at the right-hand edge of the
separation between the panes.

(If you are using a GTK+ theme, all bets are off; I don't know whether
themes can change the way an inter-pane sash is drawn, but if they can,
the sash might behave differently, so if the square box isn't there, ask
the maintainer of the theme.)

In GTK+ 1.3[.x], which is the development version of GTK+ 2.0, they
fixed that; the entire sash between the panes is a control point.