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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: KDE/kdepim/kmail
From:       "Nick Shaforostoff" <shaforostoff () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-12-09 22:32:42
Message-ID: 758e8e2d0812091432h79c4a875ra7aa77efcaa9571e () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tuesday 09 December 2008 23:09:16 Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 07 December 2008 14:05:16 Nickolai Shaforostoff wrote:
> > SVN commit 893782 by shaforo:
> >
> > yes! make kmail's config dialog take less than 600px in height
>
> Please revert your layout changes. While it is nice for the dialogs to fit
> into 600px, putting group boxes side-by-side doesn't seem to be such a
> great idea too me. I don't know what the HIG says about this, but I don't
> think it would approve.
well, we should ask usability people.

> Take a look at http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2602/kmail1nj5.png for
> example: Now, with default settings, the text in the right group box
> doesn't fit (probably even more so with German language).
> Same for http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/906/kmail4ia3.png.

remove ConfigureDialogWidth and ConfigureDialogHeight options form your kmailrc
there is a hack that hardcodes config dialog size into config file.

i've just renamed those options so that old settings won't be used
+ made boxes on the right grow more than boxes on the left
(you can see boxes on the left may be shrinked w/o text being cut)


having config dialog grow horizontally is better than having it grow
vertically -
because dialog can be dragged horizontally via titlebar
(and newbies usually don't discover alt-holding drag feature to drag
via apy point)
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