Resize grippy missing from status bar

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: software-store

Ubuntu Software Store 0.3.4, Ubuntu Karmic

1. Open the Store.
2. Look in the bottom right corner of the status bar.

What you see: Nothing.
What you should see: A resize grippy.

[Andrew (and471)]

Fixed in my branch, but then opens the issue of the status bar text not being centered, it seems we can only have one (unless I am wrong).

Matthew which is the most important?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Why can we have only one? Does GTK ignore alignment for a piece of text when there is a resize grippy next to it?

[Andrew (and471)]

Basically to have a resize grippy, we need a status bar, however in the status bar, the text in now centered.

The other option is to use a text label, in which case there is no resize grippy

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

So how is a window supposed to be able to have a resize grippy when it doesn't have a status bar at all? For example, if it has a vertical scrollbar with a grippy below it? Is that just not possible in GTK yet?

(BTW as long as the "Fix Committed" status exists, I think it's usual to use it only for "fixed in trunk".)

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

This requires GTK work to allow grippies in windows that don't use the standard status bar control (or to allow arbitrary alignment of text in status bar controls).

[Matthew McGowan (mmcg069)]

Hi i have a branch with a grip that does not make use of the statusbar widget The status text is not yet perfectly centered, but i can fix that easily enough.

https://code.launchpad.net/~mmcg069/software-center/resize-widget

[Andrew (and471)]

Thanks to http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/10/09/ this should be easy in GTK 3

[Cody Russell (bratsche)]

This has been backported to GTK+ 2.x in Natty now, I'm going to close this bug.