Re: Bug in viewing multiple tags

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 18/09/06, Bengt Thuree <bengt thuree com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 12:34 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > When viewing multiple tags in Fspot, the program displays a bar that
> > has an image for each tag. When I click on the tag People, it fills up
> > with the 70 different tags under People. This makes it very long, so
> > long that the Fspot goes off the screen to the right. In that case, I
> > cannot access the File, Edit, etc. menus and I cannot access the tag
> > dialog, because they are on the right of the window (which is off the
> > screen). Note that this is a Hebrew installation of Fspot, so English
> > and French installations, that have these items on the left, would
> > still be useable.
> >
> > The workaround to the problem that I've found is to right click
> > Fspot's icon in the KDE task bar, and uncheck the "Maximize" button
> > (may not be "Maximize" in English, that's translated from Hebrew). In
> > this state, I can drag the window via the Title Bar, and therefore
> > regain access to the tags sidebar to cancel the People selection.
> >
> > But I think that this should be fixed. If there are too many icons for
> > the width of the screen, then they should start a new row. Should I
> > file a bug?
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me ;)
> Attach a screenshot to highlight the problem if possible
>
> Also, there is a patch on the way in that would change the size of the
> icons. Not permanent fix, but help a bit anyway I hope.
>
> /Bengt

Here's the bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356511

And no, the icon-sizing patch would not help in this case. I've
clarified the description a bit in the bug report, so maybe my new
wording will show better what I mean. It's not the large tag icons
that are a problem in this case.

Dotan Cohen
http://ie-only.com