-a size hint. hardcoded because here we can't really have infos but is already better than nothing

-if the alignment of lablels is left, paint with a point instead of a rect, so won't clip away the text

svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/; revision=1083230

widgets/meter.cpp

@@ -82,7 +82,11 @@ void MeterPrivate::text(QPainter *p, int index)
                 align = alignments[index];
             }
             if (elementRect.width() > elementRect.height()) {
-                p->drawText(elementRect, align, text);
+                if (align&Qt::AlignLeft) {
+                    p->drawText(elementRect.bottomLeft(), text);
+                } else {
+                    p->drawText(elementRect, align, text);
+                }
             } else {
                 p->save();
                 QPointF rotateCenter(
@@ -521,6 +525,15 @@ void Meter::paint(QPainter *p,
     }
 }
 
+QSizeF Meter::sizeHint(Qt::SizeHint which, const QSizeF &constraint) const
+{return QGraphicsWidget::sizeHint(which, constraint);
+    if (which == Qt::PreferredSize) {
+        return QSizeF(200, 32);
+    } else {
+        return QGraphicsWidget::sizeHint(which, constraint);
+    }
+}
+
 } // End of namepace
 
 #include "meter.moc"

widgets/meter.h

@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ protected:
     virtual void paint(QPainter *p,
                        const QStyleOptionGraphicsItem *option,
                        QWidget *widget = 0);
+    QSizeF sizeHint(Qt::SizeHint which, const QSizeF &constraint = QSizeF()) const;
 
 private:
     MeterPrivate *const d;