From kde-core-devel  Tue Jan 15 06:58:12 2002
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 06:58:12 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Word-wrap in message boxes.
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=101107799920518

On Monday 14 January 2002 10:07 pm, Ellis Whitehead wrote:
> Is this really so difficult to write an algorithm for?  Not that I'm
> volunteering, but I'd rather go with the problems that were existent in
> KMessageBox and see them eventually fixed, rather than continue with th=
e
> seemingly poor tradition of hard-coding line breaks.

Whether line-breaks need to be hard-coded or not is a change of the API w=
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is rather tricky because you don't get any compiler warnings/errors for i=
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didn't see anyone going over all the dialogs and removing all the linefee=
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after word-break was enabled and we currently don't have a decent algorit=
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so if we want to have dialogs in 3.0 that don't look a lot worse than tho=
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of 2.2 we need a solution now. Whatever direction we go, it will affect=20
translations so it really needs to be done ASAP.

Cheers,
Waldo
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