Created attachment 94775 [details] [review]
style properties for message area

There were some FIXME comments in message area. This patch fix that feature request.

Created attachment 94799 [details] [review]
message area

Corrected a Gtranslator instead of Gedit data type

Comment on attachment 94799 [details] [review]
message area

>+#define GTK_PARAM_READABLE G_PARAM_READABLE|G_PARAM_STATIC_NAME|G_PARAM_STATIC_NICK|G_PARAM_STATIC_BLURB

You should not define anything in the GTK_ namespace... Why not use G_PARAM_READABLE|G_PARAM_STATIC_STRINGS directly?

>+	update_spacings(message_area);

There is a missing space here. Also, since it's the only place this function is called, why not putting it inline here directly?

Maybe I'm confused but I think there is something wrong in the patch.

To change the space between buttons you should change the spacing of action_area not main_hbox.

To set the content-area-border style property you should change the border of the "contents" not of the main_hbox (this could be a bit tricky to implement).

I suggest you to look at GtkDialog implementation to see how the properties are set there.

See also comment #3 by Steve.

Created attachment 103490 [details] [review]
patch

What about this?

Created attachment 103491 [details] [review]
message-area

I forgot a variable

If we want this we can always resurrect this bug. Marking this as obsolete.