GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 645808
All settings is too tall
Last modified: 2011-07-14 14:32:19 UTC
Created attachment 184344 [details] Screenshot of the all settings window When all settings is displayed, the window is excessively tall (it seems to be about 778px high). At this height, the window is too tall far a large proportion of screen resolutions. The window disappears off the bottom of the screen in these situations. Additionally, the proportions of the window are bad in terms of aesthetics and user experience. The window sits awkwardly in the screen; the inability to move it vertically feels constraining. A screenshot is attached.
This will mostly be fixed once the iBus entry is no longer required. Shortening the title of Empathy's settings panel will also help (see bug 647650). We could still do to tighten the vertical padding, however.
Created attachment 185895 [details] A comparison of different tweaks to the all settings layout The attachment shows three images: 1. A raw screenshot of all settings 2. 2 vertical pixels removed between icons and labels, and 4px removed between the lines of labels. 3. Same as 2, but with 12 vertical pixels removed below each group of items.
Nice. There's quite a bit of dead space to the right of the rightmost icon (Network), would probably be good to match the hard-coded width so it fits nicely without too much whitespace.
I have no problem with such a change fwiw.
I think this has been fixed already, in 3.1.3 Control Center seems to be about 580 px tall. Status should be updated accordingly, Fixed if it's really fixed, or NEW if it's not yet fixed.
(In reply to comment #5) > I think this has been fixed already, in 3.1.3 Control Center seems to be about > 580 px tall. Really? I'm using gcc from git and it's 644px tall. I presume we need to be under 690px for most netbooks, so this is probably fine in that regard. I still feel that tighter vertical spacing would be desirable though.
Probably the difference is caused by the theme, as I'm not using adwaita. Sorry for the confusion. However, the status of the bug should still be updated (it doesn't seem like UNCONFIRMED to me).
*** Bug 648705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
We'll be removing the support for external panels soon, so this should fix the rest of the problem. commit 2066d456ab1cd3f927ede970fd1ed72167194053 Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Thu Jul 14 15:24:03 2011 +0100 shell: Shrink vertically So that it has more chances of fitting on a netbook screen. This is done by removing the 6 pixel margin, and the 12 pixel bottom padding. This gives us the whole panel with a height of around 550 pixels with the default text size, which should be enough to display on a 600 pixels high screen. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645808