[Glade-users] Glade UI Preferences

[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