From kde-core-devel  Tue Jan 15 09:29:55 2002
From: Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:29:55 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Word-wrap in message boxes.
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:58:12PM -0800, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 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 the
> > seemingly poor tradition of hard-coding line breaks.
>=20
> Whether line-breaks need to be hard-coded or not is a change of the API w=
hich=20
> is rather tricky because you don't get any compiler warnings/errors for i=
t. I=20
> didn't see anyone going over all the dialogs and removing all the linefee=
ds=20
> after word-break was enabled and we currently don't have a decent algorit=
hm,=20
> so if we want to have dialogs in 3.0 that don't look a lot worse than tho=
se=20
> 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.

IMO single words need the treatment of shortening them to 80 chars max (or=
=20
whatever the width of the diag), but the QT bugs should not create the API=
=20
for KDE3. These bugs will be fixed before the QT4 I hope :)

I was showing KDE2.2 to a friend that has bad eyes, and was surprised about
the bad way KDE handeled huge fonts (> 20), its still pethethic in KDE3, bu=
t=20
auto-line-breaks are _needed_ to fix this in the future.

Your example of line breaking one word before the manual line break only
points to a direct example that can be fixed in the line breaking algoritm.

IMO this needs to be reverted.
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Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.n=
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The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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