I've been told, that we currently don't support laying out checkboxes whose text spans more than a single line. So, specifically, we can't do something like: [ ] one two three [ ] four five [ ] six seven eight nine ten eleven [ ] twelve only: [ ] one two three [ ] four five [ ] six seven eight nine ten eleven [ ] twelve ... and this warps our choices of checkbox labels, since we have to squeeze them into a limited horizontal space with no exceptions. Assuming that is indeed the case - I suggest this capability be realized in the VCL and in most (all?) backends.
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-1, this is up to the OS/DE and we aim to blend into the various systems.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > -1, this is up to the OS/DE and we aim to blend into the various systems. Well.. The OS doesn't care about GUI specifics (and usually doesn't care about GUI at all). As for the DE, we don't generally respect Desktop Environment conventions in our UI. For example, GNOME has almost no menus and monochrome buttons embedded in apps' title bar - and we don't, even if we're running in a GNOME session. In other words, we don't actually aim to blend in, in that respect. Finally, even if we gave more weight to blending in - The choice of whether long checkbox labels can wrap or not is so minor, that most people - including myself - would not even be able to tell you whether their DE supports this or not. I don't believe that allowing such multiline labels will hurt our blending-in. Can you be more specific regarding how this will be stand out?
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3) > The OS doesn't care about GUI specifics... At least https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/controls/radio-button "Limit the radio button's text label to a single line."
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4) 1. That's not the OS. Those are guidelines for UI development with WinUI. Windows, at the OS level (kernel, core libraries), does not care whether you use WinUI. AFAIK anyway. 2. So, let's look at those guidelines. The radio button page says: > The singular behavior of a RadioButtons group distinguishes it from check boxes while on the checkboxes page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/controls/checkbox it says: > Limit check box text content to no more than two lines. two lines my friend :-)