Polly

Default window arrangement for two accounts leaves second unreadable

Bug #830160 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas on 2011-08-20

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Polly	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Polly 0.91 (pre-alpha 1), Ubuntu Ocelot

1. Launch Polly for the first time.
2. Set up two accounts.

What you see:
* The window stays at the same default size that it had for one account.
* The timeline for the second account is about 20 pixels wide, not wide enough to see anything.

What you should see:
* By default, the accounts should be allocated the same width.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2011-08-20:

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Conscious User (conscioususer) wrote on 2011-08-20:

In principle, for the first columns added, I agree. However, I need a good idea of when to *stop* doing that. Some users (at least me), keep space enough for just to two columns and use horizontal scrolling if they have more. For them, resizing the window when a new column is opened would be annoying because they don't want that.

Changed in polly:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2011-08-21:

I suggest resizing automatically when new panes are added, until either:
(a) there isn't enough screen width to do that any more
(b) the user changed the width of the window manually when there were two or more panes.

That way, if it resizes when you didn't want it to, it will only ever do that once. You'll shrink it back down, and it won't enlarge again.

Changed in polly:
status:	Incomplete → New

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Conscious User (conscioususer) wrote on 2011-08-21:

I will try to implement that. To know the exact size, though, I need to know the thickness of separators/borders in the current theme. I hope I can find that out programatically.