[ListItem] Should be possible to wrap text in list items

[Sebastien Bacher]

Using the current toolkit version in saucy.

The phone's system-settings use mostly lists, some of the designs have text in the list, e.g
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OnlineAccounts?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=phone-accounts-top-some.png

Does it make sense ot want to use a ListItem.Standard there (mostly to get the margins right) or should we simple pack a Label in a ListItem.Base or Rectangle and set wrapping for that?

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

There is Caption for that maybe:
http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/devel/ubuntu-13.10/qml/ui-toolkit/qml-ubuntu-components-listitems0-caption.html

Would that fit the purpose?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Florian: not sure, the caption documentation is not very descriptive ... I just tried it and ran into some issues:

- the margins are smaller than the normal item ones, where he design has the text aligned on the left
- the background color is different
- "showDivider: false" doesn't work

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

That "Storing account details here..." text is indeed a caption. If the margin is wrong, that's a problem with all captions, not just this one.

[Zsombor Egri (zsombi)]

To me the issue aint look like a toolkit one. You can use custom layout on a ListItem.Empty any time.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That seems enough of an usecase that the standard component should support it imho, can you revisit that?

[Zsombor Egri (zsombi)]

As we discussed, this is not a common use case, so you can have something like

Column {
    width: set_to_a_something_or_anchored
    Button {}
    Label {
        width: parent.width
        wrap: Text.Wrap
    }
}

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, fair enough ;-)

[Zsombor Egri (zsombi)]

Also, the new Ubuntu.Components.Captions will give you the possibility to reconfigure the labels, its API looks is defined in https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1uqmhDn_3wlcSuzvn3L44chjzUczQ3hx5yI_kBh2IxhY/edit#heading=h.ygyalvkmacz6

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