Re: Label in tray = P in the A

[Sergey Udaltsov <sergey udaltsov gmail com>]

Thanks, that looks promising!

Sergey

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Behdad Esfahbod
<behdad esfahbod gmail com> wrote:
> On 03/23/2010 09:06 PM, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
>> Thanks Matthias
>>
>> How could I tell pango about hinting and AA settings? I could not find
>> that in pango API, only in cairo....
>> I will check the snapshot function...
>
> Use pango_cairo_context_set_font_options() with the cairo_font_options_t
> retrieved from gdk.
>
> behdad
>
>> Sergey
>>
>> On 3/24/10, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Sergey Udaltsov
>>>  <sergey udaltsov gmail com> wrote:
>>>  > In GNOME 2.30, the kbd indicator moved to the tray. People are happy,
>>>  > most of them. But ... there is a trouble.
>>>  >
>>>  > StatusIcons are not GTK widgets. And, as the result, the indicator has
>>>  > to "emulate" gtk widget. That's a real pain, folks. The indicator
>>>  > renders text to cairo, converts cairo to pixbuf, sets status icon from
>>>  > pixbuf. Worst of all, the widget has to follow gtk style, font
>>>  > rendering settings etc. What a pain.. Bug reports... Now, another one:
>>>  > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611875.
>>>  >
>>>  > Here is my question of the day: why does the font size retrieved from
>>>  > gtk style and provided to cairo give different results, comparing to
>>>  > the gtk itself? I simply do not get that...
>>>  >
>>>  > I tried to use cairo_scaled_font_t - but the results are even worse,
>>>  > the font gets smaller;)
>>>  >
>>>  > Thanks for any ideas,
>>>
>>>
>>> Using the cairo 'toy' text api is almost never correct. I've just
>>>  fixed a bunch of Indic text rendering bugs in various apps that were
>>>  caused by use of this api instead of pango. You can have a look at
>>>  pango/examples/cairosimple.c for how that might look.
>>>  Or maybe you can just use gtk_widget_get_snapshot with a label widget.
>>>
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