Fit Grid elements in Item

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday, September 24, 2012 11:45:22 David Edmundson wrote:
> Although you've told the grid to anchor on the right hand side, you've
> also (implicitly) told it it needs to be 4 buttons wide, and each
> button is hardcoded to be at least 12 characters wide.
> (plasmacomponents/qml/Button.qml:95). At which point even though the
> grid is anchored to the parent, it' content is bigger so it shows it
> all anyway.
> 
> The way you can make it fit is to "fix" the button to not be really
> massive, by adding a "width: grid.width/4.0 - grid.spacing"

width: (grid.width / grid.columns) - grid.spacing 

even :)

> Though you're in slightly dangerous territory here, as the plasmoid
> should fit the size of the content, not shrinking the content to fit.
> The last thing we want is for a plasmoid that can be resized to look
> like this: http://wstaw.org/m/2012/09/24/plasma-desktopZ30680.png

Setting a minimum size and using a popupapplet would be the way here. The 
applet then collapses if it doesn't have enough space.

> It may be better to change Button.

Not necessary, in Button.qml only implicitWidth is set, that's a fallback if 
the button doesn't have a size assigned explicitely (which is the case here).

So, as David suggests, just setting the width of the button should work.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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