[Follow-up to Bug 405210] It would be nice if the search engine button had a similar appearance as the new URL bar drop button. For bonus points, make it possible to draw the button with a custom window background color (overriding the theme color) when a search engine can be added. The button look would also make it more obvious that this part of the widget is pressable, perhaps we can even drop the arrow?

Most likely a CSS issue, not a GTK issue.

I don't think everything is in place (code wise) to do this... or is it?

Probably not doable without widget work.

I want to suggest to use "list-add" icon on the right end of search-bar, like the feed icon in the address-bar.

And adding up/down and remove icons to Manage Search Engine List buttons would complete it, and make it look really native in GNOME.

It would be relatively simple to hijack the comboboxentry drawing code to make the theme draw an attached button (just set the direction to opposite of the real one to get a button attaching to the left of the entry, and turn off the arrow drawing); it could even look great in themes like thinice who draw a button not attached, but just touching. The problem is that it's still a hack (would it look good in Crux ?), and moreover the urlbar larry button would then look out of place, and I don't know a way to make gtk draw an entry with two buttons attached: more hacks would be lurking there. It seems very fragile, and I don't think we should accept such things this late in the game; which is unfortunate because it really looks great. On the contrary, the Gtkification of the dialog seems perfectly doable and acceptable.

We completely removed the button look (bug 415958), I don't think we want to restore it.

(In reply to Dão Gottwald [:dao] from comment #7) > We completely removed the button look (bug 415958), I don't think we want to > restore it. agreed