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Text label mis-sizing / clipping
From: |
Adrian Robert |
Subject: |
Text label mis-sizing / clipping |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:50:05 -0400 |
Hi all,
One minor annoyance I've experienced on GNUstep so far is the fact
that text labels often cut off the text they contain. See attached
shots of Gorm's palette panel (note "Switc" on left, and "CustomVie"
on lower right) and GWorkspace's preferences panel ("Nam", "Owne") for
example. Almost every app shows this bug somewhere. For a while I
just thought I had something misconfigured on my system, but I've now
seen similar cases in many screenshots on the web, in tutorials, etc..
I've tried both the Art and Xlib backends. FWIW, Art is slightly
better than Xlib-antialias, and Xlib-nonantialias is a little better
still (but still not perfect).
This clipping effect makes apps and/or gnustep itself look really
amateurish, obscuring a great system and the fine efforts of many
people.
I understand that GNUstep tends to use fixed widget sizes so that font
differences between systems could be causing the problem. Perhaps it
can be laid to poor metric / other information on the fonts
themselves, since I have seen this complained about -- but I tend to
doubt this explanation since it does not seem to affect all widgets
equally. (Look at the Box widgets in the attached shots for example.)
It could be an issue with layout and not with a widget itself. Does
anyone have a better idea of what the problem might be and what we
could do about it?
<gormPalette.png>
<gworkspacePrefs.png>
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- Text label mis-sizing / clipping,
Adrian Robert <=
- Re: Text label mis-sizing / clipping, Michael Baehr, 2004/09/14
- Re: Text label mis-sizing / clipping, Riccardo, 2004/09/14
- Re: Text label mis-sizing / clipping, Adrian Robert, 2004/09/15
- Re: Text label mis-sizing / clipping, Alexander Malmberg, 2004/09/15
- Re: Text label mis-sizing / clipping, Adrian Robert, 2004/09/15
- Re: Text label mis-sizing / clipping, Alexander Malmberg, 2004/09/15
- Re: Text label mis-sizing / clipping, Adrian Robert, 2004/09/16