On Monday 14 January 2002 02:08 pm, Rolf Magnus wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2002 22:33, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > As of today, KMessageBox does not support word-wrap any longer.
>
> Any specific reason? I can't see any advantage of not supporting word-w=
rap.

Well basically our word-wrap isn't good enough. There are a few problems:
1) We don't know how big the messagebox should be. That gets complicated =
by=20
the fact that Qt is currently buggy and doesn't provide correct sizeHints=
 in=20
all situations. Theoretically we can pick any size above the minimum requ=
ired=20
size, and the text is supposed to flow into that, but chances are that th=
is=20
will look like shit. We also have a bunch of dialogs from 2.2 times that=20
still have manual line-breaks and those are really ugly because it can ha=
ppen=20
that they automatically break one-word before the manual break. On the ot=
her=20
hand if we use manual line-breaks we can size the dialog to fit the conte=
nts=20
(see also 2) and whoever wrote the text can fidle with the line-breaks to=
=20
make it a nice dialog that is well-balanced.

2) We sometimes have data that exceeds reasonable width, e.g. think of a =
200=20
character-long URL. We need to truncate that because otherwise we can end=
 up=20
with a dialog twice as wide as your screen, but that is rather hard with=20
automatic word-breaks and it is very likely that the result will again lo=
ok=20
like shit due to single words ending up on a line of their own.

Cheers,
Waldo
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