Re: Label in tray = P in the A

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

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.