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Bug 558394 - Minimum-size properties for widgets would be useful
Minimum-size properties for widgets would be useful
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 708394
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: .General
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-10-29 13:49 UTC by Tuomas Kuosmanen
Modified: 2014-05-22 00:20 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Tuomas Kuosmanen 2008-10-29 13:49:05 UTC
It would be nice if one could set minimum-size (width/height) property for all widgets from a gtk theme.

Use cases: 

   * Making an accessibility theme with large widgets

   * Making a widget theme for a mobile device or kiosk setup with 
     touchscreen user interface. One wants each clickable element 
     to be at least certain size so it is usable with a finger press.

Currently those things can be achieved by combining font size with various paddings and margin properties, but not all widgets have text in them (sliders for example) - and in general it is painful to maintain such a dependency chain. Also some widgets like progressbar can be used with or without text label, basically creating two different sized variants of the same widgets, which is inconsistent and also hard to cope with especially with bitmap-based theming.

Minimum-size property would make it easier to create consistent sizes for widgets.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2014-05-22 00:20:29 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 708394 ***