Re: [gtk-list] Re: another scrollbar policy ?

[willem stack nl (Willem-Jan Monsuwe)]

)I'm not so sure this is a good idea.  What about people with
)tiny screens.  When I run Netscape on my laptops 640x480 I can't
)access parts of some dialogs because they are off the screen.

Like the bookmarks menu, for example...  A good menu should make
columns if it gets too gig, IMHO

)I think a better solution would be to make the window big enough
)to display the data unscrolled if it can fit on the screen if
)GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC is specified.  For some reason I had to
)set a fixed window size to make my window big enough so my 
)clist shows up without scrollbars.  What's the algorithm for
)computing the initial window size?

Last time I looked, it was 'Take fixed numbers X and Y'
I think it would be nicer if the algorithm was changed to:
'MAX(<size so that toplevel window fills screen>, <child size>)'
But I'm not sure if this is easy to implement.  From the programmers'
point of view this would be: 'Set to child size, check entire window,
 if larger than screen, resize toplevel window to screen size'

Shade and Sweet Water,
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