On Apr 16, 2007, at 12:06 PM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
The problem is not widgets telling what is their maximum size
(doesn't fit to available space) or minimum size (doesn't show enough
useful information to the user), but somehow things deciding
what is the the optimum size for them. Programmer just hard-coding
the widget width in pixels is not really a solution.
It's not an easy problem to solve.
So trying to understand what you're going after, I finally made my
way here, following some transitivity in Murray's pointer:
http://live.gnome.org/MathiasHasselmann/NewLayoutManager
What I gather here is that GTK widgets can't specify maximum size
and, more importantly, they can't specify a "preferred" (as in Java)
or "natural" (as Mathias puts it) size. Okay, fine. But this isn't
because the problem is "hard". It's because of a significant
misfeature in GTK. If widgets were able to specify at least
"natural" sizes, the problem would essentially go away, would it not?
But to get back on track: this is essentially orthogonal to the issue
of giving developers the *option* of moving and resizing dialogs.
Indeed the problem will show up in fixed-size dialogs as well: just
have the user change the default system font size. So: why are we
restricted to being unable to make dialogs which can be dragged and
resized? Why can't the developer be given the option to handle these
corner cases himself?
Sean
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