Button component width

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le mercredi 3 octobre 2012 14:35:22 Marco Martin a écrit :
> On Wednesday 03 October 2012, Aleix Pol wrote:
> it's a reasonable size espressed in characters (policy i unfortunately still
> didn't make clear enough there is that pixel sizes should be avoided as
> much as possible).
> ideally, width and height of buttons or similar elements should never be
> specified by the code that uses them, but alwas stay the default, that is
> implicitWidth/height.
> 
> 12 characters is a reasonable default width for a button (and the sane
> length a button text should have), what should be done is to gather all
> those sizes in a single private file so they are consistent among different
> widgets

Was about to write about minimum width. I have bumped into that a few times 
already and I would like to suggest two changes:

1. A way to disable the minimum width if needed

2. Switch to always centering text in buttons: fixed-width buttons do not look 
good when text is left-aligned. Look This is what currently happen with the 
new lock screen for example.

I am happy to provide patches if we agree on these changes.

Aurélien