column: HdyColumn is off-center when used as a HeaderBar title child & hexpand=true

What problem did you encounter?

In what part of libhandy did you experience the problem? Note that multiple boxes may be checked.

• build system
• documentation
• example application
• HdyArrows
• HdyColumn
• HdyDialer
• HdyLeaflet
• somewhere else (please elaborate)

What is the actual behaviour?

HdyColumn is aligned incorrectly to the HeaderBar's children when used as the title within a HeaderBar.

What is the expected behaviour?

HdyColumn and its children are centered correctly.

How to reproduce?

1. Create a HeaderBar
2. Add children to a HdyColumn
3. Set the HdyColumn as a custom title

Which version did you encounter the bug in?

• I compiled it myself. If you compiled libhandy from source please provide the git revision via e.g. by running git log -1 --pretty=oneline and pasting the output below.

• I used the precompiled Debian package (e.g. by running a prebuilt image). Please determine which package you have installed and paste the package status (dpkg -s)

Revision 947a2169

What hardware are you running libhandy on?

• amd64 qemu image
• Librem5 devkit
• other (please elaborate)

Arch Linux laptop via org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/master

Playing around with the inspector, I found that this only happens if you set hexpand=true on the Column or the child.

changed title from column: HdyColumn is off-center when used as a HeaderBar title child to column: HdyColumn is off-center when used as a HeaderBar title child & hexpand=true

I don't think it's a libhandy or even a GTK issue but just the expected behavior and a misusage of the widgets, but let's keep that issue open until we find a solution. :)

Is there a better way to get the SearchEntry to adapt than wrapping it in a HdyColumn?

Yes but that's nonelesslikely the simplest, can you give me a branch so I can try things in the same conditions you did?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/BrainBlasted/fractal/commits/wip/christopherdavis/fit-room-directory

mentioned in commit adrien.plazas/libhandy@cc63614e

mentioned in merge request !232

We just merged the new HdyHeaderBar type which offers strict centering via its centering-policy property. Using it should fix this issue but HdyHeaderGroup doesn't support it yet (and won't before libhandy 1.0), so it would create other issues… What do you think @ChristopherDavis, is it worth keeping this issue open?

I think this should be closed.

closed