Re: GTK 3 support status

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 4 December 2011 02:41, John Lindgren <john lindgren aol com> wrote:

> I am wondering what the status of GTK 3 is at this time with regard to bugs
> reported by application developers.

the status is always the same: bugs reported will be looked at by the
gtk maintainers depending on time.

you may want to join the #gtk+ IRC channel, on irc.gnome.org if you
want to poke a maintainer.

> ÂI reported a rather serious bug
> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662043) a month and a half ago,
> and there is still no comment from any GTK developer.



> ÂThe bug affects the
> Audacious project to the point that we will be forced to go back to using
> GTK 2.x if it is not resolved soon. ÂI agree with the conclusion of another
> user that this is a bug "breaking [the] UI design" of GTK applications.

the source of the issue is that gtk3 does not allow widget
underallocations, unlike gtk2. underallocations were a huge source of
edge cases, code complexity, and nasty bugs in gtk2 and when the time
came to review the size negotiation implementation, and add support
for height-for-width and width-for-height, keeping support for
underallocations would have made the code balloon out of the
maintainership capabilities of the gtk team - as well as introduce new
and exciting bugs. this is why setting the minimum size using
set_size_request() will not work in your case: the label's minimum
size is bigger than the size you requested.

long story short: if you want to set the minimum size on a label you
can do it with the set_width_chars() method:

  http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkLabel.html#gtk-label-set-width-chars

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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