Re: Workspace dialog on MacOS X

[Abbott, Ben]

On Jun 10, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> On 06/09/2013 08:36 PM, Abbott, Ben wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 10, 2013, at 6:59 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jun 9, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Torsten wrote:
>>> 
>>> > On 09.06.2013 14:56, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Torsten,
>>> >>
>>> >> I have no idea why the workspace colors is squished on MacOS X. Do they
>>> >> render correctly on Ubuntu? Any idea how to fix this? My only guess is
>>> >> that the spacing of the contents of the widget aren't inheriting the
>>> >> settings of their parent (the parent appears to have its layout spacing
>>> >> set to -1, so I'd expect a reasonable result) , but as I'm barely
>>> >> literate in c++, I'm unable to confirm.
>>> >
>>> > Could you please try the attached patch?
>>> >
>>> > Torsten
>>> 
>>> No change for me. In case it may provide a hint, the "Editor Styles"
>> tab looks great on MacOS X.
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Using Qt Designer, I copied some of the features of the "Editor Styles"
>> layout. The result looks quite good now. I assume the spacing between
>> columns is coded in c++, and will need to be adjusted there. Iv'e
>> attached a diff for what I changed.
> 
> I think you've solved the problem.  The major change I see is that you added 
> plenty of room with a vertical spacer to fill the void.  I have noticed in 
> some of the manual layout I did with ui dialog boxes that the vertical spacer 
> will clear up odd things.  I would attribute this one to a bug in Qt for your 
> particular system.  The spacer is the way to go, I suspect.
> 
> Why the following change, though?  Did that slip in by accident?
> 
> +          <property name="font">
> +           <font>
> +            <pointsize>13</pointsize>
> +            <kerning>true</kerning>
> +           </font>
> +          </property>

Weird, that's the default provided by Qt Designer.  I started fresh and 
discovered that Qt Designer add this each time.  However, I can manually remove 
it.  I'll do that and attach a change to my reply to your email I just received.

Ben