[Kdelibs-bugs] [PATCH] Fixing KMessageBox cutoff texts

[Andreas Pakulat]

On Donnerstag, 1. November 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just had a look why all KMessageBoxes cut off their text and the
> problem seems to be the width/height calculation code in
> KMessageBox::createKMessageBox and the fact that the result is set as
> Fixed Size for the label.
>
> I don't quite understand why the contents width/height is calculated
> in the first place, so I just disabled the whole stuff  and set a
> real margin on the label instead of changing its size. Looks more
> apropriate to me.
>
> So what am I missing here? Or can I just commit the attached patch to
> fix this?

Here's an updated version, it simply cuts of any text that makes the 
dialog wider than 1/3rd of the current screen. That is for excessively 
long lines the best we can do (without splitting up the line and doing 
quite some font-metric-calculations).

Andreas

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