[crossfire] GTK2 on Linux (Truncation of Weight)
Kevin R. Bulgrien
kbulgrien at worldnet.att.net
Sat Jul 21 16:40:54 CDT 2007
> Headings
>
> Some title headings will not render properly at any setting. I am sure this
> is not related to the screen resolution as mine is a dual-head 1280x1024
> and no matter how wide the client is, the Weight\column title is always cut
> off. There is no reason for that as the description column is so big, as I
> test, that it is more than 50% white space.
I would like to make this change in both trunk and branch/1.x. Anyone have
a problem with it? It works at 1280x1024 which is what the README says is
the target of the design. The commentary can be removed as desired.
$ svn diff src/inventory.c
Index: src/inventory.c
===================================================================
--- src/inventory.c (revision 6798)
+++ src/inventory.c (working copy)
@@ -321,12 +321,14 @@
column = gtk_tree_view_column_new_with_attributes ("Weight", renderer,
"text", LIST_WEIGHT,
NULL);
- /* 50 is just a guess. However, testing showed that with auto resize,
- * the name column for some objects is very long, which causes weight
- * column to be pushed off the right edge and not fully visible. Given
- * the choice, I'd rather have the name truncated.
+ /* At 50, the title was always truncated on some systems. 64 is the
+ * minimum on those systems for it to be possible to avoid truncation
+ * at all. Truncating the title looks cheesy, especially since heavy
+ * items (100+) need the width of the field anyway. If weight pushed
+ * off the edge is a problem, it would be just better to let the user
+ * resize or find a way to allow rendering with a smaller font.
*/
- gtk_tree_view_column_set_min_width(column, 50);
+ gtk_tree_view_column_set_min_width(column, 64);
gtk_tree_view_column_set_sizing(column, GTK_TREE_VIEW_COLUMN_FIXED);
gtk_tree_view_column_set_sort_column_id(column, LIST_WEIGHT);
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