Re: Shrinking frames as of past month

[Jan Djärv]

Andrew W. Nosenko skrev:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Michael Olson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >
> > > It seems it is a bug in Gtk+,
> >  > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68668
> >  > (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137822 explains it a bit
> >  > better).
> >  >
> >  > Basically because the menu bar is too large for the frame, Gtk+ sets a
> >  > base width that isn't a multiple of the width increment.  This makes
> >  > the window manager shrink the text area (by 2 pixels in my case) so
> >  > that framw width - base width is a multiple of the width increment.
> >  > Then when leaving dired, we get a correct base width again.  But the 2
> >  > pixels aren't put back, rather the window manager shrinks even more to
> >  > get the frame to be a multiple of the width increment.
> >
> >  That sounds plausible.  I updated the rest of my system today, and the
> >  problem went away, so it seems to have been the fault of GTK.
>
> Could you say, which version of GTK you updated to?
> Reason: I have lates stable (gtk-2.12.9) but problem didn't gone.

I don't think the problem is fixed, the bugzilla entry is still open.
You don't see the problem if your frame is wide enough to make room for direds 
menu bar, or if you don't have the menu bar visible.  I suspect that is what 
happens.

It might also be pure luck.  I.e. the font used by the menu bar is such that 
the base width happens to be a multiple of the width increment.  Or perhaps a 
newer Gtk+ calculates the base width slightly differently.

        Jan D.