Re: Label in tray = P in the A

[Sergey Udaltsov <sergey udaltsov gmail com>]

Thanks lads, the idea about pango really worked. I should not have
used the 'toy' API. But the things got worse with the proper size -
the label becomes wide.

Here's another trouble. GtkStatusIcon makes the icon square.
Effectively, it means the image gets scaled and the glyphs become
narrow. What would be the acceptable solution? Just leave it as it is?
Use two status icons (hehe, joking)? Use flags (joking even more)?

Any ideas are welcome.

Sergey

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Sergey Udaltsov
<sergey udaltsov gmail com> wrote:
> 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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