GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 348285
Categories window way too small
Last modified: 2013-09-14 16:49:29 UTC
The categories window, which can be reached from the contact editor, is very small by default, which makes it quite difficult to handle. By default the window is just some 300px high, which results in having to scroll a lot when choosing categories (or resizing the window every time) I think a more sane default size (maybe the same as the contact editor itself) would improve the usability of this dialog a lot, making the evolution users an even more happy bunch of people Other information:
Created attachment 69356 [details] Just a little picture to demonstrate the problem
While I do agree that this dialog is too small, I honestly disagree with the proposed height. Suka, *you* are using 30 Categories, the average user doesn't even come close... IMHO a (by default) visible area of 6 to 8 (at a max) entries would be a sane default. Even more assuming bug 348269 (alphabetical sorting) is fixed.
(In reply to comment #2) > While I do agree that this dialog is too small, I honestly disagree with the > proposed height. Suka, *you* are using 30 Categories, the average user doesn't > even come close... > The *default* number of entries in the categories list is 22 so I guess most of the users will actually come quite close to this ;) So I guess something like 12-14 entries will be quite sane (by this the categories dialog is still quite a bit smaller in height than the "Edit Contact" dialog), with something like 6 or 8 people will still have to scroll way too much (takiing the 22 as a default).
Created attachment 69371 [details] [review] evolution-data-server-1.7.4-catui.patch This patch against eds adds a minimum size of 350 px to the categories field in the dialog, which results in something like 14 entries being displayed here. Don't know if this is the right way to do, still works for me, so I thought, I'd add it.
srini, can you please review this?
350px should be OK imo. It still fits in a 640x480 res. OK to commit IMO.
suka, thanks for the patch, i committed it to CVS HEAD: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution-data-server/libedataserverui/e-categories-dialog.glade?r1=1.3&r2=1.4 patch will be included in evolution 2.7.91. i do not consider this as a break of the UI freeze and i therefore don't feel encouraged to announce this to the gnome-doc-list mailing list. suka, for future reference please diff against the current CVS HEAD (cvs diff -pu) and add a changelog entry. thanks a lot in advance!