Re: gtk geometry and child aspect ratio?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 10:59, Johan Knol wrote:

> > The geometry widget handling is unfortunately fairly broken currently.
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68668
> >
> > has some details. To see how hacking around the limitations work in
> > practice, see the source-code to gnome-terminal. But I'm not
> > really sure how you expect it to work with the scrolled window
> > inbetween the toplevel and the geometry widget. The scrolled
> > window isolates the drawing area from toplevel resizing, so a
> > square drawing area shouldn't put any constraints on the toplevel.
>
> Ok, I want the geometry manager to display the visual part of the 
> drawing area to be squared. So maybe I should use the scrolledwindow's 
> viewport as the geometry widget, but that doesn't work either.

Well, then read that bug report and gnome-terminal sources as I 
suggested.

Regards,
                                                Owen