Re: [Evolution] Evolution-on?

[Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no>]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:02:34 +0200
Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 06:23 +0200, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > But all this plugin does is to hide and show the evolution window, so 
> > didn't think that this would cause any problem for Evolution and 
> > hence that this would be a Evolution problem?
>
>       Hi,
> it depends on the way the plugin hides the window. Evolution listens
> for window size changes and adapts the divider between the message list
> and the preview panel accordingly, trying to keep the preview panel
> size and changing the message list size - simply try to change the
> window size manually to see the effect.
>
> If the way the plugin hides the window also changes window's size, then
> it is like the window size being changed by the user and all the
> processing is involved. The other thing can be whether your Evolution
> window is maximized and what size it has when it is unmaximized. If you
> make the unmaximized window almost the same size as the maximized one,
> then the maximize/unmaximize change will not affect the view that much.
>
> You can also check how the window looks like when it is hidden. The
> settings keys are:
>    $ dconf read /org/gnome/evolution/shell/window/maximized
>    $ dconf read /org/gnome/evolution/shell/window/x
>    $ dconf read
> /org/gnome/evolution/shell/window/y
>    $ dconf read
> /org/gnome/evolution/shell/window/width
>    $ dconf read
> /org/gnome/evolution/shell/window/height
>
> This is how evolution works. You can ask the developer of the plugin
> what the plugin does and whether there could be done the same with
> other ways (if it influences the above values, while I believe he might
> not be able to do much with the maximize/unmaximize thing).
>       Bye,
>       Milan

Thx for a great explanation... Making the unmaximized window almost the same as maximized solved my 
problem... :)

BTJ