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Diffstat (limited to 'src/extension/param/description.cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/extension/param/description.cpp | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/extension/param/description.cpp b/src/extension/param/description.cpp index 7f7d2d976..898544e94 100644 --- a/src/extension/param/description.cpp +++ b/src/extension/param/description.cpp @@ -84,9 +84,22 @@ ParamDescription::get_widget (SPDocument * /*doc*/, Inkscape::XML::Node * /*node label = Gtk::manage(new Gtk::Label(newguitext, Gtk::ALIGN_START)); } label->set_line_wrap(); + label->set_xalign(0); + + // TODO: Ugly "fix" for gtk3 width/height calculation of labels. + // - If not applying any limits long labels will make the window grow horizontally until it uses up + // most of the available space (i.e. most of the screen area) which is ridicously wide + // - By using "set_default_size(0,0)" in prefidalog.cpp we tell the window to shrink as much as possible, + // however this can result in a much to narrow dialog instead and much unnecessary wrapping + // - Here we set a lower limit of GUI_MAX_LINE_LENGTH characters per line that long texts will always use + // This means texts can not shrink anymore (they can still grow, though) and it's also necessary + // to prevent https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773572 + int len = newguitext.length(); + label->set_width_chars(len > Parameter::GUI_MAX_LINE_LENGTH ? Parameter::GUI_MAX_LINE_LENGTH : len); + label->show(); - Gtk::HBox * hbox = Gtk::manage(new Gtk::HBox(false, 4)); + Gtk::HBox * hbox = Gtk::manage(new Gtk::HBox()); hbox->pack_start(*label, true, true); hbox->show(); |