Re: Extended Layout

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 21:09 +0200, Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 13.04.2010, 22:53 -0400 schrieb Owen Taylor:
> 
> > 
> > The basic way that people get away with it is that width-for-height is
> > enough to do almost everythign you want, and height-for-width is just a
> > bit of gravy on top to make things look complete.
> 
> Height-for-width is useful for GEdit style notification banners.
> That's how I actually stumbled over this topic.

Note that my statement was backwards. Which may or may not have been
obvious from context. I meant that 'height-for-width' is useful, and
'width-for-height' is a bit of gravy on top.

That is, "the behavior of text" is useful, the opposite behavior less
useful.

- Owen