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List:       gtk-devel
Subject:    Re: Extended Layout Summary
From:       "Matthias Clasen" <matthias.clasen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-11-21 3:07:19
Message-ID: cbccc63c0711201907y64cf383fx3d6a75758e523dab () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Nov 20, 2007 8:45 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org> wrote:

>     a) Maximize number of children taking their natural size.

I am not convinced this is always the best strategy. Doesn't this
encourage starving
one child in favour of the rest of the pack getting their natural size
? If you really want
to be flexible in this, you probably need to go to a TeX-like glue
model and assign
stretchabilities and shrinkabilities to children.

>     b) The allocated size of children should be a continuous function of
> c_gap.  That is, increasing the container size by one pixel should never
> make drastic changes in the distribution.

This one I fully agree with.
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