[Gretl-devel] Re: Gretl icon view enhancement

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2021, Henrique Andrade wrote: > >> Dear gretl team, >> >> What do you think about increasing the number of lines of the text >> legend inside the gretl icon view? >> >> Please take a look at the attached pdf file. It shows that besides >> the space is sufficient for the English locale, it is not for some >> other locales. > > Fair point. I think I'd favor allowing the icon view window to be > wider, and not truncating the strings for the icons, rather than > splitting the strings over more than one line. Does that sound OK? Ah, I tried that and it's not good: if I allow full-length strings for all languages the icon view becomes too wide and sparse, and looks stupid. This is actually quite complicated; more thought needed.