In Gtk, how do I remove the shadow from a Statusbar?

Question

If I make a Statusbar, and PackEnd a Label to it, it looks something like this:

The Shadow disappears over the Label, but remains over the rest of the Statusbar. I want to remove the Shadow from the entire Statusbar. The PyGTK documentation mentions a property called shadow-type, but it's readonly, and nowhere to be found in GTK#. How do I get rid of this shadow?

Answer 1

why don't you just use a hbox for that?

Answer 2

shadow-type is a style property, which means it's actually supposed to be set by the user and/or desktop theme. You can set it by writing a custom style file for your application and reading it in using gtk.RcStyle.

If you have a need for two separate status messages in your application, you could also consider packing two status bars into an hbox.

Answer 3

You're not supposed to pack stuff into the statusbar, it's not meant as a general container.

To display text in a status bar, use its own API, i.e. gtk_statusbar_push() from C. The GTK# docs on go-mono.com seem to be offline, so I couldn't link to those right now.

Answer 4

The first child of a GtkStatusbar is a GtkFrame which gives the shadow border (edit: apparently not). You should be able to do this:

statusbar.get_children()[0].set_shadow_type(gtk.SHADOW_NONE)

Several apps (most notably Epiphany and, in the past, Galeon) actually replace the contents of that frame with an HBox so they can add stuff to the statusbar.