Elide skin tag doesn't work if text is next to an expanding widget

[mixxxbot]

Reported by: ywwg
Date: 2015-03-21T18:10:44Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp1434865

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see: #506 (comment)

If elidable text is next to an expanding widget, even if the text is expanding, it will get prematurely elided and look wrong. My guess is the call to width() is incorrect.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2015-03-25T18:46:34Z

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Copying the GitHub message:

So the problem is if there's a layout like:
[text wlabel][some other expanding widget]

The width() call is wrong... if the text could fill up available space it doesn't and I get:
[text wlab...][ some other expanding widget]

instead of:
[text wlabel in all its long glory][ some other expanding widget]

I can rework LateNight to not use expanding widgets, but I'm going to put in a TODO and file a bug

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2015-03-25T18:53:08Z

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I think the current behavior is correct in the first place.
A elided label has no has no preferred size by default. I just takes the space that is available.
So if it is next to an other expanding widget, the other wins.

Of cause we can implement the other behavior, but it is an other degree of complexity, probably needs additional size hints from the skin.
@owen: I think you have fixed the issue in LateNight, so there is currently no demand, right?

[daschuer]

The solution is to re-implement the sizeHint() function to return the size of the not elided text as the desired optimum.

[daschuer]

Fixed in #11194