Re: GTK 3 support status

[John Lindgren <john lindgren aol com>]

On 12/04/2011 04:02 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> the status is always the same: bugs reported will be looked at by the
> gtk maintainers depending on time.

So the status at this moment is that no developers have time to look at 
bugs reported by application developers.  Or is there something wrong 
with my report in particular?

> the source of the issue is that gtk3 does not allow widget
> underallocations, unlike gtk2. underallocations were a huge source of
> edge cases, code complexity, and nasty bugs in gtk2 and when the time
> came to review the size negotiation implementation, and add support
> for height-for-width and width-for-height, keeping support for
> underallocations would have made the code balloon out of the
> maintainership capabilities of the gtk team - as well as introduce new
> and exciting bugs. this is why setting the minimum size using
> set_size_request() will not work in your case: the label's minimum
> size is bigger than the size you requested.
>
> long story short: if you want to set the minimum size on a label you
> can do it with the set_width_chars() method:
>
>    http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkLabel.html#gtk-label-set-width-chars

Thank you for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, when I tried it just now, 
that method also no longer works in GTK+ 3.x.  Accordingly, I have 
reported this problem also: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665560

-- John