The 2 missing pixels should be padding determined by the active gtk theme if I'm not mistaken.
-Stefan Nuxoll <[email protected]> On Dec 29, 2009, at 8:15, Tony Houghton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to write a panel applet in python which scales itself to > fit > the size of the panel (the height for horizontal panels and the width > for vertical ones). But I can't find a way to find the true size of > the > panel. > > As the documentation says, the size hint returned by > panel_applet_get_size() and "change-size" is not useful (because it's > not the true size of the panel, but rounded to some arbitrary > constants). But the docs also say "size negotiation ... is handled by > size_request() and size_allocate() as usual." But it doesn't work that > way! "size-allocate" signals only get sent when the size hint changes, > and they come in pairs: one with each dimension 2 pixels less than the > size request and then with the dimensions the same as the size > request, > no matter how different that may be fromthe true size of the panel. > I've set the EXPAND_MINOR flag but it makes no difference. > > It must be possible because the Workspace Switcher does it, but the > wnck > Pager code is a bit too complicated to follow as an example; it > looks as > if it replaces a size_allocate function in its GObject implementation > rather than using signals, maybe to repair or work around > PanelApplet's > vandalism? > > -- > TH * http://www.realh.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > gnome-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
