Hello,

The spash picture is dispayed in a window where the system display a progress dialog for the loading process.

The container window for this spash picture has its width resized according to the with of the text line(s) displayed. This produces an a not nice "oscillating" effect on the screen. --
Regards
- Jean-Luc

Henrik,

Le 13.03.2004 13:47, Henrik Brix Andersen a écrit :

Hi,

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 13:34, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:

The container window for this spash picture has its width resized according to the with of the text line(s) displayed. This produces an
a not nice "oscillating" effect on the screen.

Which version of The GIMP?

So, I forgot: it is the 2.0-pre cvs version from 20040312.

Under which locale are you running The GIMP?

Locale is fr_FR@euro, but I tried with LC_MESSAGES=C and got the same effect (less annoying anyway because the English sentences are mostly shorter).

--
Regards
- Jean-Luc

Sincerely,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen

Le 13.03.2004 15:28, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) a écrit : Le 13.03.2004 15:13, Sven Neumann a écrit :

Hi,

"Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" writes:

The container window for this spash picture has its width resized according to the with of the text line(s) displayed. This produces an a not nice "oscillating" effect on the screen.

Your font size got to be HUGE. I would suggest you start gimp using the --no-splash command-line option to workaround this problem.

Sven

PS: I am planning to do some changes to the splash window today or tomorrow. Should be trivial to work around this problem by cutting the text off if it's too wide.

I don't think my font size is so huge ;-)

I join (for you, not for the list, as requested by Henrik) a screenshot of what happens with the French locale.

I was not able, after lots of tries, to get a capture of the same thing with the C locale, I'm always out of sync: this happens only in one case, when it is loading the "Resource configuration" and the displayed path is too long, it is "/home/jean-luc/.gimp1.3/pluginrc" ; this text is larger that the width of the splash image so the windows width is increased accordingly.

*I* can survive with this "problem". It is not looking so pretty that's all ..

--
Regards
- Jean-Luc

Hi David,

Le 13.03.2004 15:22, David Neary a écrit :

hi Jean-Luc,

Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:

So, I forgot: it is the 2.0-pre cvs version from 20040312. Locale is fr_FR@euro, but I tried with LC_MESSAGES=C and got the same

effect (less annoying anyway because the English sentences are mostly

shorter).

This may be a problem related to your desktop fonts. Here with fr_FR and en_UK or C I have no problem.

If you use a bigger font in your gtk+ theme, that might make the text wide enough to over-run the splash box.

This is the case, my font size is 12 8-)

What's your expected behaviour here. That the text be chopped at the edges of the splash, or that the window be big enough for the biggest string from the start?

*My* expected behaviour is ... nothing. I just *think* it would have a better "sex appeal" for the end user who is comming from an other software and who thinks the look is important.

Any of your suggestions is acceptable: - text cropped : motly nobody read it as it is moving very quickly - larger window can be *the* solution but you will have to fix/compute and acceptable width.

--
Regards
- Jean-Luc

Cheers,
Dave.

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David Neary,
Lyon, France
E-Mail: bolsh@gimp.org

Hi Sven,

Le 13.03.2004 16:20, Sven Neumann a écrit :

Hi,

"Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)" writes:

I don't think my font size is so huge ;-)

Well, your font isn't that huge but you've choosen a very wide font. It's of course up to you, but you will be suffering from this problem in all dialogs. I suggest you don't use an oblique font for your desktop.

Snifff ... I loved it ...

But you are right, in the past, I had a problem with the gnome-panel and italic fonts, the right-end character was truncated (fixed in gnome 2.6).

For The Gimp, with simple arial, up to 12, there is no problem.

While we are speaking of splash screen a 3:2 ratio or 4:3 ratio or "magic number" ratio rectangle instead of a square shape would looks even better, but it is a matter of taste ;-)

-- J-L

Sven