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Bug 688341 - Left-align the contacts pane
Left-align the contacts pane
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-contacts
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Contacts maintainer(s)
GNOME Contacts maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-14 18:36 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2013-05-04 15:53 UTC
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Description Allan Day 2012-11-14 18:36:16 UTC 
Right now, the contents of the contact pane acts as a block which is center-aligned. If you make the contacts window large, you end up with a column of content in the middle of the pane.

After some thought, I think it would be better if this was left-aligned. Center alignment was supposed to avoid having a large amount of whitespace (or greyspace :) ) on the right of the contacts pane, but it looks a little odd and results in a disconnect between the list and the contacts pane.

I think we have to accept that there will be a lot of whitespace if the window is large, and go with left-alignment in order to keep the contact list and contact pane in close dialogue.

See the latest mockup:

https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/contacts/png/selection.png
Comment 1 Allan Day 2013-03-21 00:37:34 UTC 
This has been fixed for 3.8.
Comment 2 Allan Day 2013-03-21 10:44:06 UTC 
Actually, it hasn't.
Comment 3 Erick Perez Castellanos 2013-03-21 12:48:20 UTC 
This one is easy to fix. It was like that initially, but I changed because of the whitespace. So you only need to convince me of it.

Maybe we could restrict the size of the window, make it of a fixed size ?
Comment 4 Allan Day 2013-03-21 13:27:42 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> This one is easy to fix. It was like that initially, but I changed because of
> the whitespace. So you only need to convince me of it.

Well, you are always going to have whitespace. The only question is whether you have it on one side or both. Having the details hanging in the middle of the contact pane looks strange, and disconnects it from the list.

> Maybe we could restrict the size of the window, make it of a fixed size ?

That would mean you couldn't maximise the window on some displays.