RE: [Tile-dev] -width option for tile label widgets

[Jeff H. <je...@Ac...>]

> Part of the rationale for why Tile labels and buttons work 
> differently in this regard is to support customizable 
> toolbars, where the user can select "Pictures and text", 
> "pictures only", or "text only", as found in most web 
> browsers.  To support this use case, Tile added  "-compound 
> text" and "-compound image"; this makes it easier to switch 
> back and forth (with Tk buttons, to get the effect of 
> "-compound text" you need to set "-image {}"; and you have to 
> remember what the original image was in order to change it back).
> 
> With this usage, it's preferable that the "-width" option 
> always mean the same thing, instead of sometimes being in 
> pixels and sometimes being in characters depending on the 
> values of other options.

While I would agree with this, the core evidently decided that
the same consistency should be held ... for images.  In any
case, how do you handle the addition of an image to the mix?
Does that calculate into the whole, added separately, ???

Jeff