Re: Preferences dialog width - GTK interface

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>]

> On 6 Feb 2017, at 00:08, Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 10:42:32PM +0100, Jaap Keuter wrote:
> > On 05-02-17 21:28, Alexis La Goutte wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 7:52 PM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl
> > > <mailto:jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>> wrote:
> > >
> > >    Hi,
> > >
> > >    Does anyone else get ridiculous wide (as in over 2000 px wide) preference dialog
> > >    on GTK development build?
> > >    It seems that the new 'title only' preferences, of RDP, DAP, SAP, etc, are long
> > >    lines, which are wrapped in the Qt interface, but not in the GTK interface.
> > >
> > > Hi Jaap,
> > >
> > > May be because user use now Qt ? ;-)
> >
> > And now seriously?
>
> I can reproduce this problem (with 2.0.5 and master
> (v2.3.0rc0-2268-g9ffff86e8d) with GTK+ 3.77.2, the dialog is very wide.
> I guess it has something to do with the children not being constrained
> while the parent tries to adjust to the largest width.
>
> Maybe setting the maximum width hint for the label would help? (No idea
> how, would have to read the fine manual for that.)

Hi Peter,

Thanks for having a look.  Indeed we’ll need to tweak the preference label widget to word wrap, as does the Qt version. 
Let’s see what we can find.

Thanks,
Jaap

PS: I’ve seen no bug reports on this. If this indeed is a problem existing from 2.0 on, does this show that the legacy 
interface sees little use? 
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