Shrink the app icon when out of space

In the standard icon grid and there's a lot of windows to display,
shrink the icon size until all the windows will fit. This does it
by halving the current icon size. If the icon size goes below 8,
it will stop there so the icons are still present.

Signed-off-by: Simon Steinbeiss <simon.steinbeiss@elfenbeinturm.at>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/tabwin.c b/src/tabwin.c
index c5d8846dc..0c6e5f1d9 100644
--- a/src/tabwin.c
+++ b/src/tabwin.c
@@ -453,10 +453,32 @@ createWindowlist (ScreenInfo *screen_info, TabwinWidget *tbw)
     gtk_widget_style_get (GTK_WIDGET (tbw), "icon-size", &icon_size, NULL);
     tbw->widgets = NULL;
 
+    /* We need to account for changes to the font size in the user's
+     * appearance theme and gtkrc settings */
+    layout = gtk_widget_create_pango_layout (GTK_WIDGET (tbw), "");
+    pango_layout_get_pixel_size (layout, NULL, &app_label_height);
+    g_object_unref (layout);
+
     if (screen_info->params->cycle_tabwin_mode == STANDARD_ICON_GRID)
     {
-        tbw->grid_cols = (monitor_width / (icon_size + 2 * WIN_ICON_BORDER)) * 0.75;
+        tbw->grid_cols = (monitor_width / (icon_size+app_label_height+10)) * 0.75;
         tbw->grid_rows = screen_info->client_count / tbw->grid_cols + 1;
+
+        /* If we run out of space, halve the icon size to make more room. */
+        while ((icon_size + app_label_height + 10) * tbw->grid_rows > monitor_height - app_label_height)
+        {
+            icon_size = icon_size / 2;
+            /* recalculate with new icon size */
+            tbw->grid_cols = (monitor_width / (icon_size+app_label_height+10)) * 0.75;
+            tbw->grid_rows = screen_info->client_count / tbw->grid_cols + 1;
+
+            /* Shrinking the icon too much makes it hard to see */
+            if (icon_size < 8)
+            {
+                icon_size = 8;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
     }
     else
     {
@@ -481,12 +503,6 @@ createWindowlist (ScreenInfo *screen_info, TabwinWidget *tbw)
         g_signal_connect (window_button, "leave-notify-event", G_CALLBACK (cb_window_button_leave), tbw);
         gtk_widget_add_events (window_button, GDK_ENTER_NOTIFY_MASK);
 
-        /* We need to account for changes to the font size in the user's
-         * appearance theme and gtkrc settings */
-        layout = gtk_widget_create_pango_layout (GTK_WIDGET (tbw), "");
-        pango_layout_get_pixel_size (layout, NULL, &app_label_height);
-        g_object_unref (layout);
-
         if (screen_info->params->cycle_tabwin_mode == STANDARD_ICON_GRID)
         {
             gtk_widget_set_size_request (GTK_WIDGET (window_button), icon_size+app_label_height+10, icon_size+app_label_height+10);