[gtk+] GtkFixed: Update documentation intro
- From: Daniel Boles <dboles src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gtk+] GtkFixed: Update documentation intro
- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 12:04:02 +0000 (UTC)
commit 01fe6b4a83170e08c44c1d6b14c67b538bcf7e56
Author: Daniel Boles <dboles src gnome org>
Date: Thu Aug 3 12:42:20 2017 +0100
GtkFixed: Update documentation intro
• Add GtkLayout as a @See_also since it includes fixed-pos functionality
• Drop mention of the long-gone Linux framebuffer port
• Explain how to work around the problems with RTL text
gtk/gtkfixed.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/gtk/gtkfixed.c b/gtk/gtkfixed.c
index a4be439..62d6a2f 100644
--- a/gtk/gtkfixed.c
+++ b/gtk/gtkfixed.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
* @Short_description: A container which allows you to position
* widgets at fixed coordinates
* @Title: GtkFixed
+ * @See_also: #GtkLayout
*
* The #GtkFixed widget is a container which can place child widgets
* at fixed positions and with fixed sizes, given in pixels. #GtkFixed
@@ -43,18 +44,19 @@
* - Fonts other than the one you used to write the app will of course
* change the size of widgets containing text; keep in mind that
* users may use a larger font because of difficulty reading the
- * default, or they may be using Windows or the framebuffer port of
- * GTK+, where different fonts are available.
+ * default, or they may be using a different OS that provides different fonts.
*
* - Translation of text into other languages changes its size. Also,
* display of non-English text will use a different font in many
* cases.
*
- * In addition, the fixed widget can’t properly be mirrored in
- * right-to-left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic. i.e. normally
- * GTK+ will flip the interface to put labels to the right of the
- * thing they label, but it can’t do that with #GtkFixed. So your
- * application will not be usable in right-to-left languages.
+ * In addition, #GtkFixed does not pay attention to text direction and thus may
+ * produce unwanted results if your app is run under right-to-left languages
+ * such as Hebrew or Arabic. That is: normally GTK+ will order containers
+ * appropriately for the text direction, e.g. to put labels to the right of the
+ * thing they label when using an RTL language, but it can’t do that with
+ * #GtkFixed. So if you need to reorder widgets depending on the text direction,
+ * you would need to manually detect it and adjust child positions accordingly.
*
* Finally, fixed positioning makes it kind of annoying to add/remove
* GUI elements, since you have to reposition all the other
@@ -64,6 +66,9 @@
* If you know none of these things are an issue for your application,
* and prefer the simplicity of #GtkFixed, by all means use the
* widget. But you should be aware of the tradeoffs.
+ *
+ * See also #GtkLayout, which shares the ability to perform fixed positioning
+ * of child widgets and additionally adds custom drawing and scrollability.
*/
#include "config.h"
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