Re: Information Area taking over worksheet

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

You can change the size of the shhet tabs area by dragging the handle to
the right.

Regards,
Jean

Le jeudi 21 janvier 2010 à 11:49 -0500, chris dunn a écrit :
> Gnumeric has started a very annoying habit of opening up a box to the
> left of the Information Area (bottom right corner of the display) in
> width so that the width of the display of tab names is much reduced.
> This results in only being able to see a small number of the sheet tab
> names instead of a full-width display showing a larger number of sheet
> tab names. I'm not sure what this box is called or what is it's
> function.
>
> Now I'm sure this didn't use to happen, and when I opened one of my
> sheets with lots of tabs I could see all (or very many) of the sheet
> tab names in almost the full-width of the display after opening the
> sheet. As far as I recall this spacing remained static, and there was no
> attempt by the box left of the Information Area to hijack the space.
> Perhaps there was no such box?
>
> Now when I open a sheet I seem to get a fairly normal sized Information
> Area, an empty box to the left of the IA taking up about 2/3 of the
> display width, and a small area to the left of that with just a couple
> of the tab names shown. There is a handle left of the empty box which
> allows me to minimise its width and display more tab names. Fine, but
> then while I'm working this rogue box once again widens and closes down
> the tab names so that I have to keep going through the process of
> reducing the box width. 
>
> Am I the only one suffering from this infuriating behaviour or is it an
> aggravation to others also? Am I missing something obvious which would
> allow me to control this rude box? What is the box for? Can I dispense
> with it?
>
> Help, please.