Re: Text label mis-sizing / clipping

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Apart from the design recommendations to get around the problem,
I think there's yet another thing taken into account.

Apple has such a privilege that they can uniformly provide
their clients with the whole, ready-made system environment. 
Of course, it includes fonts.  Because of this, Cocoa developers
hardly need to be worried about fonts used by the potential
users of their products, as both the developers and the users
are reasonably supposed to share the same fonts with each other.

In short, what a developer sees is what a user gets, and vice
versa.

Unfortunately, as several people witnessed, this is not the
case for GNUstep.

If GNUstep provided a sort of official font collection, and
imposed it on all users, GNUstep developers could enjoy the
same privilege that Cocoa developers has, and the issue we
are now talking about would never be manifested at all.

From various reasons, however, I don't think such a collection
gives us a satisfying solution.

IMO, like other GUI toolkits and frameworks for X, a label
widget class which can change its boundary size automatically
in accordance with the extent of the text to be displayed
gives a better solution.  In contrast to Cocoa, GNUstep
inevitably faces the diversity of users' various font
environments.  The mis-sizing/clipping issue won't be
eliminated until GNUstep inherently deal with the diversity
its own way.

Regards,
Kazunobu Kuriyama