Re: [Evolution-hackers] Regressions on stable branch

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:41, Not Zed wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 14:25, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > Maybe we are talking about a different bug?
> 
> Oh ok.  Yeah maybe.  The one i saw was much bigger than that.
> 
> Some changes can't be avoided without changing the size of the bar, or
> limiting the size of the label - can that be done?  

That's why I was suggesting EClippedLabel instead of just GtkLabel for
that specific string.  (Although, it would probably still suck to have
it saying "Scanning fold.." or something, so it would be better to solve
it differently.)

> Because the bar
> assumes a certain sized font.  I use a smaller one so only very long
> strings make a difference, but if i had a longer server name, the same
> problem would occur, regardless.  Its a design problem with the
> dialogue.

Nod.  Probably not displaying the server name in the messages would help
too though; in the string I was talking about it goes:

	Server: imap.perazzoli.org, Type: imap
	Scanning folders in "IMAP server mail.perazzoli.org"

It should not put the "IMAP server ..." part in the second line, and I
don't think it did in 1.4.4 either.

(Of course, I don't know if it can be done right now without changing a
lot of code and without breaking string freeze...  But we could at least
think about it for HEAD.)

-- Ettore