GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 706277
Single-window docks get too wide.
Last modified: 2013-08-19 14:59:01 UTC
Created attachment 252167 [details] before adding one more tool In the changelog, it says: "Don't allow single-window docks to shrink smaller than their requisition". In practice, adding just a few tabs makes the dock area *very* wide with no recourse. This is, IME (and in the eyes of a friend who does significant graphics work), a UI usability regression. I added two screenshots that differ just by adding *one* more tool tab to the bottom dock area. Instead of adding tab scroll bars, the whole dock area got much wider.
Created attachment 252168 [details] after adding one more tool
Is this the same as bug 703692?
By "with no recourse", do you mean you can't make it smaller even after your removed the sample points tab?
I'm not exactly sure whether it's the same as bug 703962, as I've got no BG/FG color tab there. There, removal of that worked as workaround. And "no recourse" means, I can't make the dock area smaller now. I don't know which tab you refer to with "sample points". Do you mean "Pointer information"? (Which was the most recently added tab.) If so, no, I just removed it, and even then, I can't make the dock area smaller again, not even back to the previous size.
Just figured that it is indeed a duplicate, the fix is not released yet and will be in 2.8.8. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 703692 ***
Okay, thanks. Hanging on for the next release.