GTK and non-monospace fonts

["Bartosz \"Neron\" Leper" <bl_nero o2 pl>]

Hello there,

I'm new here and I'm from Poland, so I'm sorry for my weak English. But I'll
try to explain what's on my mind.

I'm using Mandrake Linux and I've experienced some problems with displaying
GTK widgets: all applications I have that are written using GTK are
calculating word length incorrectly, which causes labels unreadable in some
cases.

It happens when I use non-monospace fonts (in Poland we say: proportional
fonts). Nearly each word is displayed correctly, but every space between
words is somehow "strange": sometimes it's normal, somtimes it's illogically
wide (when the word consists of narrow letters, like 'iiii', and sometimes
even "space" means "backspace" (when the word consists of many wide letters,
like 'WWWWW'). I think it's because GTK (or GDK?) counts word width as if it
was written in monospace font (like Courier)!

Simmilar thing happens in edit boxes (sorry for that Win32 terminology), and
it's even worse: when I try to put caret into box using mouse, I click
between two letters, but the actual point of inserting text appears to be
somewhere else - it's also sounted using monospace font width!

I am running GTK version 1.2.8-6mdk, but I don't know if it really matters,
because nearly all applications I have are pre-compiled.

Please help me, because it's really annoying! I don't know if I refer to
appropriate mailing list; if you know some other places to find some info,
please mail me.

Thanks in anvance,
Nero

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