[Glade-users] Glade UI Preferences

[simon at olicana.org (Simon Langley)]

On 20 Apr 2009, at 17:23, Alexey Kurochkin wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:04 -0500, Alexey Kurochkin wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 08:59 -0500, Alexey Kurochkin wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 10:17 +0100, Simon Langley wrote:
> > > > I am trying to use Glade on a netbook with a 1024x600 screen and  
> > > > when
> > > > the palette is integrated into the main display, I cannot resize  
> > > > the
> > > > window to fit on the screen.
> > > >
> > > > For some reason the palette window has a minimum size (when  
> > > > integrated
> > > > or separate) that is larger than strictly necessary.
> > > >
> > > > So, my questions are these.  Is there any way to get around the
> > > > (unnecessary) minimum size restriction?  If not, is there any way  
> > > > of
> > > > turning off the row of buttons on the main display to give a bit  
> > > > more
> > > > space?
> > >
> > > To my understanding the cause of the problem is the line
> > >
> > > gtk_widget_set_size_request (widget, -1, rows *
> > > child_allocation.height);
> > >
> > > in the glade-palette-box.c file. It forces minimum height of the  
> > > palette
> > > to be the number of rows multiplied by the maximum height of a row,
> > > which would be the height of the expander button plus the height  
> > > of an
> > > icon. I think it is mistake to multiply the height by the number of
> > > rows, as there could be unreasonably many of them to fit the  
> > > palette on
> > > any screen at all. Maybe the size requisition should be even omitted
> > > altogether. You can try to fiddle with that line, recompile, and  
> > > see if
> > > I'm right. In any case, file a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org to get it
> > > fixed.
>
> I filed a bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579624
>
> > On the other hand I was completely wrong. That line is fine.  
> > Problem is
> > even simpler. In the glade-window.c there's a line
> > gtk_widget_set_size_request (palette, 200, 540);
> >
> > > > The only preferences I could find were for the project not Glade  
> > > > itself.
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Thanks for looking into this and for filing a bug report Alexey.

I presume that this would only become apparent for users with very  
small screens but even ignoring the fact that the palette has a  
vertical scroll bar, the minimum height of 540 is still bigger than  
necessary.

Otherwise Glade works fine on my netbook (Acer Aspire One running  
Jaunty).

Simon