Set Adw.Clamp to a certain percentage of window size

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Hi!

Relatively quick question. Is it possible to make an Adw.Clamp occupy a given % of the window? 30% for example.

adw_clamp_set_maximum_size only accepts an Adw.LengthUnit, which are px, pt and sp.

Thanks in advance!

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In short: no, you can’t

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Is there any specific reason you’d like this? I’m having a hard time coming up with a case where having a variable maximum size is preferable to having a constant one :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thank you both for your replies!

You’re spot on haha. The Adw.Clamp % solution would be to my problem Y.

My actual problem is that I have a window with a main element that expands, and an “episode list” on the right. I’ll attach a few images to illustrate it.

I’d like to do the following:

  • Have a max size for the episode list, up to a certain point (never covering too much of the window)
  • Gradually ellipsize more and more of the episode titles as the window gets smaller. If the window gets larger, ellipsize less to show more of the title

With a fixed width clamp

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Without a clamp

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With a clamp, the issue is that the title is permanently ellipsized, even if the window is wide enough to support a full title. Without the clamp, longer titles always occupy space to display everything, obscuring the main widget, no matter what the halign and hexpand properties are.

I thought that maybe if I could set the clamp to always occupy 30% of the window, the problem would be solved.

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Clamp is absolutely not the right widget here in the first place. Have you looked at AdwNavigationSplitView and AdwOverlaySplitView? They do support percentages btw.

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Thank you very much! That is precisely what I was looking for!
There doesn’t seem to be a way to move the sidebar to the right side as of right now, is that correct?

The unstable release seems to have a set_sidebar_position method, though. Would I have to wait for that to move the sidebar to the right?

Thanks!

Edit:

I tried swapping sidebar and content, but that’s not exactly the desired solution because then I cannot control the min and max widths of the actual sidebar, which is set to the content to be on the right. ://

Similarly, is there a way to limit the sidebar widget to the natural size of its content?

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Overlay split view has it in stable. Navigation split view only in main.

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Alright, I guess I’ll wait then! Out of curiosity, is there an ETA on the stable release of 1.7?

Thanks!

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Why wait? Use overlay split view

1.7 will be released at the same time as every other GNOME 48 module, as always

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Fair enough :rofl:

Thank you for the information and all the help! Have a nice day!

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