On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Sergey Udaltsov <sergey.udalt...@gmail.com> wrote: > In GNOME 2.30, the kbd indicator moved to the tray. People are happy, > most of them. But ... there is a trouble. > > StatusIcons are not GTK widgets. And, as the result, the indicator has > to "emulate" gtk widget. That's a real pain, folks. The indicator > renders text to cairo, converts cairo to pixbuf, sets status icon from > pixbuf. Worst of all, the widget has to follow gtk style, font > rendering settings etc. What a pain.. Bug reports... Now, another one: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611875. > > Here is my question of the day: why does the font size retrieved from > gtk style and provided to cairo give different results, comparing to > the gtk itself? I simply do not get that... > > I tried to use cairo_scaled_font_t - but the results are even worse, > the font gets smaller;) > > Thanks for any ideas,
Using the cairo 'toy' text api is almost never correct. I've just fixed a bunch of Indic text rendering bugs in various apps that were caused by use of this api instead of pango. You can have a look at pango/examples/cairosimple.c for how that might look. Or maybe you can just use gtk_widget_get_snapshot with a label widget. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list