Re: GtkIconView set_item_width question

[Santhosh <santhosh lists gmail com>]

Dave,

> http://martini.gurumeditation.it/gtkiconview_problem.jpg)

This problem will not arise if you use GTK_ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL (but
this is not a good solution..)
It is a known problem with GtkIconView. I had  filed a bug regarding
this problem during gtk-2.5 development releases and It was fixed in
gtk-2.6.0 [But it was not fully fixed].
[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152483]

I have also got the same misalignment problem when I ported my
software to gtk-2.6.0. It is a strange one and it arises only when the
lenth of the text (below the icon) is somewhat larger [In my case it
was 28 characters - it also depend on the sum of the widths of all the
characters i.e.. the width of the PangoLayout which is used to display
the text (I may be wrong)]

I didn't hack on his problem. I have just switched my GtkIconView
Orientation to GTK_ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL and everything seemed to
work fine for me.

I didn't even reopened the bug because I was unable to reproduce it.
This bug creeps in when I view the contents of my home folder(in my
sample browser which uses GtkIconView) which contains a long-filename.
When I renamed that file, I got everything correct. Probably you can
reopen the bug (if you wish).

>  
>  How can you see some icon (like Duel) take 2 much space...I can't find why.
>  

It is the problem that still exists in the fixed version of gtk+. I
believe it is the problem with the algorithm which layouts the icons
in the GkIconView.

Santhosh.