TextField ignores verticalAligment setting

[Michał Sawicz]

Given the code:

import QtQuick 2.2
import Ubuntu.Components 1.1

Rectangle {
    width: childrenRect.width + units.gu(2)
    height: childrenRect.height + units.gu(2)
    color: "darkgrey"

    Column {
        anchors.centerIn: parent
        spacing: units.gu(1)

        TextField {
            text: "Standard TextField"
        }

        TextField {
            height: units.gu(6)
            text: "Higher TextField"
            verticalAlignment: TextInput.AlignVCenter
        }
    }
}

The text in "Higher TextField" is not centered vertically in the field.

[Christian Dywan (kalikiana)]

I'm not sure what is expected of a TextField that isn't vertically aligned - bug 1571576 deals with alignment not being vertical by default. If you want other alignments UX input is needed - primary and secondary items as well as the clear button might have to follow the alignment as well.

[Rae Shambrook (raecontreras)]

I talked to Zsombor about this, although I think there's not a lot of use cases for changing the alignment, Zsombor says changing this behaviour will break the API. What Zsombor has done though is make centre alignment the default.

[Christian Dywan (kalikiana)]

So how are we going to address this? I'm not clear if we want to respect the alignment - and how exactly - or ignore it explicitly, like we effectively do right now.

[Christian Dywan (kalikiana)]

For the record, what I just clarified in an IRC discussion with Rae:

- Right now verticalAlignment doesn't affect anything.
- There's no known real life user.
- No designs make use of custom alignments - it's not desired.

So we just need to decide:

1) To deprecate it officially.
2) To leave the bug open indefinitely - I don't see a trivial fix and if nobody's using it spending a lot of time on that seems questionable.