From kde-devel  Mon Jun 14 05:06:13 2004
From: Bernd Pol <bernd.pol () online ! de>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:06:13 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: How to adjust widgets to different sizes of i18ned texts?
Message-Id: <200406140706.15073.bernd.pol () online ! de>
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Hello all,

there is more in it. In my opinion Florian has been misunderstood. I 
think what he wanted -- and what I would like to know as well -- is 
some kind of routinely applicable _dynamic_ mechanism to adjust widget 
sizes to the actual texts in them.

This is more of a problem in title bars, esp. in dialog windows, where 
important text portions most often are hidden. Sometimes this is a 
severe usability problem which should be solved.

Just to repeat the question: Is there any means to dynamically adjust 
widget sizes (any kind of widget, not only push buttons)?

On Sunday June 13 2004 22:07, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
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> On Sunday 13 June 2004 12:10, Florian Simnacher wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > is there a common technique to make widgets (for example
> > KPushButton) fit to the size of a text label automatically? This is
> > to cope with the fact that messages in different languages have
> > different sizes.
> >
> > Any kind of advice or RTFM pointer to docs or code is highly
> > appreciated.
>
> As other have pointed out, you should use a layout manager. Remember
> that a) Fonts sizes differs
> 	b) Resolutions differs
> 	c) Text direction differs
> 	d) Text content differs
> 	e) ....
>
> in other words: Layout by pixel is hopeless, in HTML and GUI-design
> alike. Forget it.
>
> - --
> regards, Esben
>
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Have a nice day,
Bernd
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