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Bug 561465 - Evolution: Make the "Attendee" column wider by default when adding or editing a meeting.
Evolution: Make the "Attendee" column wider by default when adding or editing...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Calendar
2.22.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Milan Crha
Evolution QA team
evolution[compeditor]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-11-19 04:19 UTC by Nick Jenkins
Modified: 2009-03-02 05:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Attachments
proposed evo patch (1.12 KB, patch)
2009-02-23 12:54 UTC, Milan Crha
committed Details | Review

Description Nick Jenkins 2008-11-19 04:19:33 UTC
Steps to illustrate problem:
* Start Evolution 2.22
* Press shift-ctrl-e (which makes a new meeting).
* Note that the "attendee" column takes up about one third of the column space, and that the "Role" column takes up about two thirds of the column space.
* Click the "Add" button to add a new attendee.
* Type 3 letters are that are common in your contacts (for example "pet" for "peter" lists about 10 email addresses for me).
* Observe that it is almost impossible to see the full email addresses for the listed attendees, which can be problematic if have people with multiple email addresses, and you know they check some more regularly than others.
* If you drag the column to be wider, then close the item, then reopen it, Evolution will reset the column back to the default.

What should happen instead:
Either change the default:
* The "role" column is (in many situations, especially social situations) far less important than the attendees. What's most important usually is telling people about an event, not telling them their role.
* Accordingly, can the widths of these columns please be reversed, so that the "attendee" column takes up 2/3rd of the width, and the "role" column takes up 1/3rd of the width.
... Or, remember the user's customization:
* Remember the column widths if the user modifies the widths, and then apply this width to all meetings.
Comment 1 Milan Crha 2009-02-23 12:54:23 UTC
Created attachment 129315 [details] [review]
proposed evo patch

for evolution;

Expand 'Attendee' column instead of the last. When you show more columns, in View menu, it'll change its portions.
Comment 2 Srinivasa Ragavan 2009-02-24 16:56:18 UTC
to stable/trunk
Comment 3 Milan Crha 2009-02-25 10:59:20 UTC
Committed to trunk. Committed revision 37327.
Committed to gnome-2-24. Committed revision 37328.
Comment 4 Nick Jenkins 2009-03-02 05:05:07 UTC
Thank you both, I am looking forward to using this with the next distro upgrade.