Re: Preferences dialog width - GTK interface

[Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl>]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 12:04:48PM +0100, Jaap Keuter wrote:
> > On 6 Feb 2017, at 07:43, 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.
>
> Hi,
>
> I’ve rebuild and tested 2.0.11 to see how similar this is to master, since these long titles were only introduced 
> recently.
> Indeed it’s not as bad as with master. In master-2.2 and master-2.0
> the GTK preference dialogs are not as small as the Qt one, but well in
> line with the application window (IMHO). The big change is in master,
> where the GTK preferences dialog is much wider, wider than my single
> screen. 
>
> So, the fact that this is not (yet) reported makes more sense now. Anyway, let’s see how we can reign in the GTK 
> preference dialog.

I actually had this earlier (before the recent changes), but did not
report it. It might have something to do with upgrading GTK+ to a newer
3.x version.
-- 
Kind regards,
Peter Wu
https://lekensteyn.nl
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