Re: Centered texts often don't look nice

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

You can left justify the text in a GtkLabel with the following command:
  gtk_misc_set_alignment(GTK_MISC(label), 0.0, 0.5);

This will shift the text to the left edge of its allocation.  If you want
to get a multi line label left justified with respect to the other lines,
you will also need:
  gtk_label_set_justify(GTK_LABEL(label), GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT);

James.

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On 16 Apr 2000, Karl EICHWALDER wrote:

> Pretty often, texts are centered.  The texts would look much better if
> they were presented left justified.
> 
> Is this a known limitation or is it useful that I start to report these
> cases as bugs?  Here's one example
> (gnome-utils/gsearchtool/gsearchtool.c):
> 
> static GtkWidget *
> create_locate_page(void)
> {
> 	GtkWidget *w, *vbox, *hbox;
> 	static GtkWidget *buttons[2];
> 
> 	vbox = gtk_vbox_new(FALSE, GNOME_PAD_SMALL);
> 	gtk_container_border_width(GTK_CONTAINER(vbox), GNOME_PAD_SMALL);
> 
> 	w = gtk_label_new(_("This is an interface to locate.  If you type in "
> 			    "a simple string it\nwill be matched as a subset "
> 			    "of the full path, and if you type\nin a string "
> 			    "with wildcards, it will have to match the full "
> 			    "path."));
> 	gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(vbox), w, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
> 
> You'll find much more examples in preferences dialogs.
> 
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