On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Thomas Perl <thp at perli.net> wrote: > Hello! > > Below is a message from a bug report (link below) about how we > currently deal with multiple errors. To my knowledge, GTK doesn't offer > the possibility of having one message box having multiple message (at > least not the stock message box). > > Should we go the route of creating a hand-crafted message box that can > deal with multiple messages that can be switched through (like other > apps have done before) or that lists the error messages in a text view > (like GtkPod does)? > > What do you think? If possible, please also reply in the bug report > directly so we can capture all ideas there. > > Thanks for your input to this issue, > Thomas > Perhaps it could be a box that says "X number of errors have occurred" then have a "More Info" button and a "Close" button. The "More Info" button would open a text view in the dialog which would display the errors. I can't find anything in the gnome HIG about this so I guess we're on our own here ;) nick