Re: [Vala] Fonts problem.

[Arkadi Viner <arkashkin gmail com>]

> You aren't using a fixed layout, are you?
Well, I am.  :-)
My gui is very complicated with a lot of widgets and It just seemed to me
much simpler to draw everything with a fixed layout.

> use HBox and VBox (and Table) to align and group your widgets, don't
position them absolutely.
> The interface will adapt itself to font family and size.
If you say that the interface will adapt itself, I will probably redraw all
the interface using HBox and VBox and Table widgets...

> User preferences must never be overridden by your application. Never.
Well the only thing I have overridden accept widgets position is their
colour.
I want my program look nice and I prefer it that way.
The user will have the choice to use system default colours...

Thanks a lot!

2009/10/10 Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>

> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Arkadi Viner <arkashkin gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to ask you for an advice.
> > I have build my gui with glade and it looks pretty well on my laptop but
> on
> > some systems it doesn't look well.
>
> Well, you have to make it so it looks good everywhere.
>
> > The captions of labels some times don't fit in and the user sees only
> > partial captions and the font it self is different and some time very
> ugly.
>
> This should be handled by GTK itself. You aren't using a fixed layout, are
> you?
> How the font looks is not your problem to solve. That kind of opinion
> is quite subjective.
>
> > So how you handle those kind of problems?
>
> Use automatic container layout properly.
>
> > Should I provide my used fonts with the installer?  some how make the
> size of fonts fixed?
>
> No, definitely not. User preferences must never be overridden by your
> application. Never.
>
> > Thanks.
>
> You're welcome :)