Re: [evolution-patches] Fix to resize the composer attachment bar

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:12 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> I have to agree.  It seems to be a completely sub-optimal solution to
> the problem.
> 
> First, force the attachment bar to be open all the time, removing a
> useful and common trick of having a collapser (a favourite on mac i
> might add, which we seem to be religiously copying in gnome).  Then find
> 'oh dear, this takes up too much space', so hack in a very crappy
> solution of letting the user re-size the bar - which given how big and
> silly the icons are will make it unusable unless it is full size anyway.

I feel that its better to have a soln of resize instead of show/hide
mode. I guess most mail clients work that way. Mac, has a total
different expander, which doesnt even has a scrolled window inside it.
One thing i can try do is the reducing the size of huge icons, which a
lot of people seem to complain. Its really difficult to scroll huge
items in that small space.
> 
> It just demonstrates that the first thought wasn't fully evaluated
> before it was implemented by Srini.  Sigh.
> 
If so, sorry for that. I guess im evaluating the existing stuffs.

> I really dont mind having it resizable, it just seems a pretty poor
> workaround to a problem that didn't even exist before!
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:06 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > personally I'd prefer the way 2.2 did it, which was just that the
> > attachment pane was collapsable.
> > 
> > the problem with resizing here is that there's an optimum size for the
> > attachment pane to be - there's no real reason for a user to change it -
> > the text in the editor is far more important content than the attachment
> > icons; as long as a user can see the full attachment info in the
> > vertical space provided, he/she can always use the scrollbars to view
> > more attachments if they've attached too many to display in a single
> > row.
> > 
> > resizing the attachment bar to a smaller size doesn't really make sense
> > either as it eliminates the value of having it viewable in the first
> > place.
> > 
> > hope that makes sense...
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 00:57 -0600, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have attached a patch, which allows to resize the attachment bar when
> > > its visible.
> > > 
> > > Please review and give back the comments.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > Srini.
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