[sugar] [PATCH] tweak battery charging (progress) bar

[Eben Eliason]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Martin Dengler
<martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:03:21PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>  > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Martin Dengler
>  > >  <martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
>  > >  >  +        self.set_size_request(style.zoom(style.GRID_CELL_SIZE * 4), -1)
>  > >
>  > >  Sounds good to me, but I think Marco dislikes set_size_request.
>  > >
>  > >  Marco, what do you think?
>  >
>  > I don't think we should set palette size to a fixed width. The whole
>  > gtk layout logic is dynamic, so that, for example, you can increase
>  > the font size without screwing up...
>
>  There is indeed little point in having a nice auto-sizing GUI if code
>  is going to fix assumptions about sizes.
>
>  In case you/anyone can think of something that might be acceptable, I
>  want to make the motivation clear: 1) many of the palettes in the
>  mockups at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs/Frame seem to have a
>  fixed size; and 2) on IRC eben mentioned he liked the palettes a bit
>  wider (IIRC), and I, after trying it out on my XO, found the same.

To make my goal clear:  I have no intention of requiring all of the
device palettes to be a fixed width.  For that matter, I don't care to
specify an absolute size for any of them individually.  I do, however,
want to ensure that the sliders and meters and such within them have
enough horizontal space to accurately portray the info they contain.
I think that the battery meter should be about twice as wide as it is
currently.  As such, there must be a way to tell it to be *at least*
some width, since below that width it's less readable.  This is not a
fixed assumption.  The palette can naturally expand as necessary to
allow room for longer text, etc.

- Eben