Re: Preferences dialog width - GTK interface

[Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte () gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl> wrote:

> > 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?
Good question..
I don't known if gerald have some stats from (auto)update tools ?

May be also the issue coming from a change on GTK ?

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