status bars and strangeness

[Davyd Madeley <davyd fugro-fsi com au>]

In a bonobo based app I'm working on. A number of windows (let's call
them MGivaComponent windows) are created by a shell and bonobo controls
are placed in them. These bonobo controls are merging menus and toolbars
into their respective windows. One of the windows is trying to add a
status bar.

The XML for this controls UI element looks something like this:
        <status>
                <control name="appbar"/>
        </status>

And the code looks something like:
                bonobo_ui_util_set_ui (ui_component,
                                       GLADE_DIR,
                                       "mgiva-map.xml",
                                       "mgiva-map",
                                       NULL);

                /* add the GnomeAppBar */
                mgiva_map->appbar = gnome_appbar_new (TRUE, TRUE,                                 GNOME_PREFERENCES_NEVER);
                ctrl = bonobo_control_new (mgiva_map->appbar);
                gtk_widget_show (mgiva_map->appbar);

                bonobo_ui_component_object_set (ui_component,
                                "/status/appbar",
                                BONOBO_OBJREF (ctrl),
                                NULL);
                bonobo_object_unref (BONOBO_OBJECT (ctrl));

Now, the appbar gets added as you might expect, however even though it
is the only element in the status bar (as this is the only
MGivaComponent window to have a status bar) the GnomeAppBar is not
expanded to fill the width and the text portion of the appbar is about
2mm wide.

Thoughts? Am I doing something wrong, is this expected behaviour, or is
this a bug somewhere in libbonoboui?

--d