[Kst] The problem with auto-sizing labels

[George Staikos]

Mandatory auto-sizing of labels is a bit of an issue.  Justification  
(horizontal) is actually useful with the current design, however.   
Place a label to the right edge of the view and put dynamic content  
in it (scalar/strings).  Those can cause the label to grow, but it  
can't grow because it's already right-aligned.  Therefore we  
presently use justify-centre.  My feeling is we should generally  
justify-left, however there could be sessions where it makes more  
sense to justify-right.  In fact resizing labels due to content  
changing is horribly ugly in my opinion.  It can destroy the layout  
of a session entirely.  Therefore I'm going to revert this change and  
I think we need to reconsider label sizing once again.

On 5-Jan-07, at 7:21 PM, Andrew Walker wrote:

> Possibly, but not as easy as removing it.
>
> And a smaller patch than fixing it so hopefully less likely to get  
> clobbered
> when you merge your branch.
>
> On January 5, 2007 3:55 pm, George Staikos wrote:
>> On 5-Jan-07, at 6:33 PM, Andrew Walker wrote:
>>> SVN commit 620422 by arwalker:
>>>
>>> BUG:135437 Remove the horizontal justifcation item as it is non-
>>> functional given the new behaviour for labels.
>>>
>>>  M  +0 -4      kstviewlabel.cpp
>>>  M  +101 -66   viewlabelwidget.ui
>>>  M  +0 -3      viewlabelwidget.ui.h
>>
>>     Why did you decide to remove it instead of fixing it?  It's easy
>> enough to support I think.
>>
>>     Also I noticed that you have been making numerous checkins
>> lately.  Please beware that we have a huge branch ready to merge.
>> Large patches will make this difficult and given a choice between a
>> long difficult merge or an overwrite, we will clobber changes in
>> trunk.  We spent far too long merging the branch already.  It would
>> be best to keep us informed of what you woud like or intend to do in
>> trunk.

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