Re: default label wrapping width

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 23:34, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> gtklabel.c:get_label_wrap_width
> 
> In a word, "why?"  Why doesn't the label wrapping work the same
> way that GtkTextView does?  TextView will try to use its whole
> space allocation.  With the width-request property, we can
> specify the minimum amount of width that TextView requires.
> 
> Labels, on the other hand, wrap to a hard coded width which
> is dependent on the current font.  Overriding the width-request
> can change this minimum width, but the label ignores its space
> allocation.  It doesn't expand to use extra space.
> 
> For example, if I have a dialog box that is resizable then the
> labels which are word-wrapping do not adjust themselves to
> fill extra space after expanding the window.
> 
> Is there some backward compatibility reason for this behavior?
> Is it a bug?  Shall I file it in bugzilla?

There's an explanation of the current behavior in:
 
 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101968
 (Height-for-width wrapping for GtkLabel)

Regards,
				Owen