GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 713882
Remove min side bar width
Last modified: 2014-11-11 21:09:58 UTC
---- Reported by geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-10-08 17:50:00 -0700 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 7618 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7618 Searchable id: yorba-bug-7618 Original author: Nathan McCloskey Original description: Remove the minimum width of the left most sidebar so that it can be configured by the user Related issues: related to geary - 7401: Sidebar width expands but doesn't contract (Open) ---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-10-09 06:48:00 -0700 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Jim Nelson about 1 month ago * **Category** set to _ux_ * **Target version** set to _0.5.0_ This is probably related to #7401. #### #2 Updated by Jim Nelson about 1 month ago * **Tracker** changed from _Feature_ to _Bite-sized_ --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:24 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 7618 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7618 Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
This affects me too! It's quite annoying and it can't be that hard to fix. The sidebar width doesn't even need to be configurable, it just needs to not have a minimum. It's so wide that I need to use the program in full-screen to be able to read mail at a reasonable width and there isn't even text in the space it's taking up. The mail pane is resizeable to 0, why can't the "sidebar" be too?
*** Bug 725543 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If the sidebar can be reduced to zero width, someone could easily think that it has disappeared. Likewise, below a certain width, the sidebar becomes useless. While I agree that the minimum width should be reduced, some minimum width is desirable.
Please fix. Seems like it would be quick. The message (middle) pane already has a smaller minimum width than the folder pane.
*** Bug 739970 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've pushed a suboptimal fix, in the sense that the sidebar can be collapsed so narrowly all labels are ellipsized. However, this will at least work around the problem to make Geary more usable. Also, this fixes bug #713476. I discovered that setting width_chars (even w/ ellipsize mode set) will make that bug return, so I opted to go this way for now. Pushed to master, commit ab293d2