Text label mis-sizing / clipping

[Adrian Robert]

Hi all,

One minor annoyance I've experienced on GNUstep so far is the fact 
that text labels often cut off the text they contain.  See attached 
shots of Gorm's palette panel (note "Switc" on left, and "CustomVie" 
on lower right) and GWorkspace's preferences panel ("Nam", "Owne") for 
example.  Almost every app shows this bug somewhere.  For a while I 
just thought I had something misconfigured on my system, but I've now 
seen similar cases in many screenshots on the web, in tutorials, etc.. 
 I've tried both the Art and Xlib backends.  FWIW, Art is slightly 
better than Xlib-antialias, and Xlib-nonantialias is a little better 
still (but still not perfect).

This clipping effect makes apps and/or gnustep itself look really 
amateurish, obscuring a great system and the fine efforts of many 
people.

I understand that GNUstep tends to use fixed widget sizes so that font 
differences between systems could be causing the problem.  Perhaps it 
can be laid to poor metric / other information on the fonts 
themselves, since I have seen this complained about -- but I tend to 
doubt this explanation since it does not seem to affect all widgets 
equally.  (Look at the Box widgets in the attached shots for example.) 
 It could be an issue with layout and not with a widget itself.  Does 
anyone have a better idea of what the problem might be and what we 
could do about it?



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