FlowBox: Explain how to avoid inflated min size

along the orthogonal orientation. It seems a FlowBox on its own can only
handle being shrunk along its main orientation. The orthogonal requests
a huge min size – reserving what it would need if the main orientation
got its min size, which would flow all children in 1 line orthogonally.

Adding it to a ScrolledWindow (any policy) enables free shrinking, so
size_allocate() can reflow how users in this situation probably expect.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787021
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Daniel Boles
2017-09-12 22:48:58 +01:00
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* Reducing the height will require more columns, so a larger width will
* be requested.
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* The size request of a GtkFlowBox alone may not be what you expect; if you
* need to be able to shrink it along both axes and dynamically reflow its
* children, you may have to wrap it in a #GtkScrolledWindow to enable that.
*
* The children of a GtkFlowBox can be dynamically sorted and filtered.
*
* Although a GtkFlowBox must have only #GtkFlowBoxChild children,