Desktop icons

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Sun Jul 20 21:35:12 BST 2003


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On Sunday 20 July 2003 19:03, David Faure wrote:
> On Sunday 20 July 2003 18:51, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I have changed it to be "Hard disc". It will become "Hard disc (hda1)"
> > when you have more than one hard disk (disc?). When you have one device
> > that can be mounted at two different locations (some people have that,
> > not very common) it will become "Hard disc [/mnt/foobar]". Unfortunately
> > this looks horrible here since it gets wrapped as:
> >
> > Hard disc [/
> > mnt/foobar]
> >
> > Question to kfm-devel: Does kde do the wrapping or is it done by Qt?
>
> For desktop icons, KWordWrap does the job.
>
> It wraps at word separators, which includes '/', so the above isn't too
> surprising - but I see how it looks bad. I'm not sure which rule to make up
> to avoid that though. Paths are always a bit special....
> Hmm, something like: when finding a breakable char, check if the current
> word "looks good" (i.e. contains any real chars, not only other breakable
> chars), and if not, break before it. When hitting that '/', the current
> word is "[/", which doesn't fullfil that requirement.....

Yes something like that. But a slash alone should be left on the first line I 
guess, example:

Input /
Output

Cheers,
Waldo
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