Re: [iPAQ] Re: GTK Widets size

On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 13:08, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi
>
> * Jonathan Bedford (Jonathan.Bedford_at_pdu-consultancy.com) wrote:
> > But when I run NMAPFE it fills the whole screen and much much more.
> > What needs to be changed to compile applications for the iPAQ screen?
>
> If you maximise the window Gtk will try and fit it on screen as much as
> possible, but it generally looks pretty rubbish.
>
> I wonder if the solution might be to hack Gtk a bit so that if the
> window wants to be bigger than the available screen size it puts the
> whole window inside a scrollable container. It would be a pita to use,
> but it would make life a lot easier for using apps that haven't been
> specifically designed to run at 320x240.

Shouldn't that be the window-managers job? The window manager from
sikigami (http://www.sikigami.com/) does this if I remember correctly.
 
> If the app uses libglade then you could just edit the glade file and
> move the widgets around until it fits.

That's something really really nice about libglade :)

/Erik

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