GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 415606
too much distance between lines in bulleted list
Last modified: 2008-02-26 20:52:16 UTC
I was using tomboy 0.5.5 and quite happy with it and the new bulleted list. Now trying out 0.6.0 I realize that bulleted lists are separated by a lot of whitespace (12 pixels for a 11 pixels font!) in total wasting 6 lines that used to fit on screen. Would it be possible to revert to using the original 7 pixels again ? This happens with a font of 11 pixels.
Created attachment 86741 [details] [review] fix
The reason for this to happen is that someone for the bulleted list increased the font size to 12 points regardless of what font one uses. IMO this is a bug in its own, as the user can tune the fontsize in the preferences anyway - which will also make the bullet grow with larger fontsize. When one (such as I) is using a rather small font size, the 12 points will create huge distances between the lines, as the bullets 12 point spacing will be used. So just removing this custom 12 point bullet size should be the right fix. Trivial patch for tomboy 0.6.3 attached.
This patch is still valid for 0.8.0 and yes tomboy still has this problem even with 0.8.0.
I will keep this at blocker until someone looks at this >6 months old report *that includes a patch* So either close this bug or apply this patch.
Dude, that's just not what "blocker" means. Please stop changing that...it just wastes time when we're trying to prioritize bugs. This bug does not result in crashing or loss of data, and isn't destroying the usability of Tomboy for a bunch of users, so there's no reason to call it a blocker. Your patch is not being explicitly ignored, but the developers have limited time to spend on Tomboy, and the issue you're experiencing is not one that should block the next release of Tomboy. We really do appreciate the patch, but every patch takes time to review and test. Since that hasn't happened yet, I'd like to keep this bug open.
if the tomboy devels are unable to have a look at a patch which removes exactly 1 line in the code withing *6 months* the tomboy project has no future. so I just give up on using it.
Attaching some comparison screenshots might help, btw.
Applied the patch to SVN Trunk (r1594). Thanks for the report and patch. Sorry for the delay. In the future, as Sandy suggests, please don't mark something like this as Blocker. Poke us in IRC or the mailing list if it seems we're completely ignoring a bug.