Is it possible to get some text displayed which is truncated to fit inside its allocation?
GTK’s behavior (no clipping) is a consequence of its attempts to conserve X resources. Label widgets (among others) don’t get their own X window – they just draw their contents on their parent’s window. While it might be possible to have clipping occur by setting the clip mask before drawing the text, this would probably cause a substantial performance penalty. Its possible that, in the long term, the best solution to such problems might be just to change gtk to give labels X windows. A short term workaround is to put the label widget inside another widget that does get its own window – one possible candidate would be the viewport widget.
