Re: Please fill out the GtkLabel questionnaire

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Benjamin Otte <otte gnome org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> So this came up while discussing
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647284 and we weren't sure
> what the proper answers for all those questions were. So we were
> wondering.
> We are thinking about GtkLabel size reuqests, in particular about the
> width. For ease of discussion, we assume that the font is monospaced,
> so we can forget about pixels and only think about characters. The
> text set on the label is "12345 1234" (10 characters in 2 words). And
> the question is: Given the properties on the left what width should
> the label request? Please fill out the table.
>

One set of cornercases missing from your list is
width_chars/max_with_chars < ellipsis-width