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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Word-wrap in message boxes.
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-01-15 9:29:55
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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.
> 
> Whether line-breaks need to be hard-coded or not is a change of the API which 
> is rather tricky because you don't get any compiler warnings/errors for it. I 
> didn't see anyone going over all the dialogs and removing all the linefeeds 
> after word-break was enabled and we currently don't have a decent algorithm, 
> so if we want to have dialogs in 3.0 that don't look a lot worse than those 
> of 2.2 we need a solution now. Whatever direction we go, it will affect 
> translations so it really needs to be done ASAP.

IMO single words need the treatment of shortening them to 80 chars max (or 
whatever the width of the diag), but the QT bugs should not create the API 
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, but 
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.
-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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