QLabel kills our KMessageBoxes (and others)

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 19 of October 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Friday 19 October 2007 11:12:04 Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 of October 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > Speaking as a co-KDE guy; I know you are well known in the
> > > window-manager area so I'm wondering what is holding up the 'perfect
> > > fix' ? Can you perhaps work in the spec to make this a concept
> > > available on X11?
> >
> >  I'm not sure. With fixed-value minimum size it's simple, both to set
> > and to use. But with height_for_width minimum size, with more complex
> > layouts it's probably possible to end up with more complicated rule
> > than something like "height = 20 + width / 50". Now, the window manager
> > should never be blocked by a client, meaning it can't query the client
> > whenever it needs this value - so how should it technically get the
> > minimum size?
>
> Why is the rule to never query the client a hard rule?

 It is not a hard rule. It's just not a very good idea to have the WM blocked 
somewhere deep in the code waiting on a client that may take ages to respond.

> I can understand 
> there might be problems in responsiveness for some windows, but at the
> same time the problem this thread addresses can be solved in the correct
> manner.  I'm sure that puts some weight in the scale.

 Nothing is perfect, and the gain/effort ratio may put more weight on the 
other scale. Trying something almost correct first seems like a better option 
to me.

> IIRC Windows implements this feature (width for height), how does it solve
> the problem you put forward of querying the client? Does anyone here
> know?

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