Re: [Evolution-hackers] hiding the sidebar

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 14:41 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> * Handle double-clicking on the paned handle and set the paned size to 0
> or the last size if it is 0
>
> 	PROS:
>
> 	  - Evolution used to do this in 1.2
> 	  - We can avoid the resize issues you mentioned
>
> 	CONS:
>
> 	  - Not completely obvious
and a really small target to double click.
> We really need to get the components to be listed in a View submenu or
> something as well, so they can be easily keyboard accessible as well.
> The other thing we need to do is allow resizing the component buttons
> to sizes below their minimum size, and allow getting rid of the text to
> have just small buttons with small icons.
And to be able to get rid of the icons, to have only text like other toolbars.
> I think that will solve most of the problems that people actually have
> with that part of the window. And, in combination with the click-
> handling on the paned widget, we can keep minimum size restraints
> for the information area, and still have it be generally usable. We can
> also put a vertical paned widget in the sidebar, so that you can resize
> the component buttons to squish them downward as well.
>
> -- dobey
>
> On Mër , 2004-04-28 at 14:13 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've been fiddling with ways to hide the sidebar.  I think there are a 
> > number of good reasons why a user might wish to do this.  Let me know if 
> > I should make a case...
> > 
> > Currently, the component info widget and component button widgets 
> > prevent the pane from completely collapsing.
> > 
> > Personally, I disable the component buttons altogether.  I prefer to 
> > invoke the apps separately (a la 
> > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-patches/2004-April/005011.html). 
> >     Since the buttons have other issues like 
> > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57783, I'll just ignore them 
> > for now.
> > 
> > The component info widget uses a minimum size based on the size of the 
> > component icon, the length of the info string, and "..." for the location.
> > 
> > This can be overridden by telling gtk_pane to resize and shrink children 
> > in e-shell-window.c:setup_widgets().  However, this causes some pretty 
> > ugly behavior where the info text overlaps the location text and icon.

Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> Ximian Evolution and Free Software Developer

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