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Bug 714972 - Blank space between conversations in conversation list
Blank space between conversations in conversation list
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: ux
unspecified
Other All
: High normal
: ---
Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
Depends on: 730682
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-09-24 11:11 UTC by Jim Nelson
Modified: 2019-01-15 06:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Charles Lindsay 2013-11-21 23:13:04 UTC


---- Reported by jim@yorba.org 2012-09-24 16:11:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 5877
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5877
Searchable id: yorba-bug-5877
Original author: Jim Nelson
Original description:

After some discussion, we've decided instead of a solid line we'd like to pad
each conversation item with a little blank space so they "float" separately
from each other.

Original description:

> As discussed in #5727 but not implemented in time for 0.2.

Related issues:
related to geary - 5727: Update conversation list interface (Fixed)
related to geary - Bite-sized #7412: Conversation list widget has a minor
inconsistency (Invalid)



---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-11-14 17:21:00 -0800 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago

  * **Tracker** changed from _Bug_ to _Bite-sized_
  * **Target version** set to _0.3.0_

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#2

Updated by Jim Nelson 8 months ago

  * **Target version** changed from _0.3.0_ to _0.4.0_

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#3

Updated by Jim Nelson 4 months ago

  * **Category** changed from _client_ to _ux_

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#4

Updated by Jim Nelson 4 months ago

  * **Subject** changed from _Use solid lines between conversations in conversation list_ to _Blank space between conversations in conversation list_
  * **Description** updated (diff)

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#5

Updated by Jim Nelson 3 months ago

  * **Assignee** set to _Eric Gregory_

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#6

Updated by Eric Gregory 3 months ago

This turns out to be a wee bit more complex than it looks at first glance.

Gtk doesn't seem to have any concept of space between cells in a tree view.
There are various ways to apply extra space between cells, but these are
displayed as (to use HTML lingo) "padding" rather than a "margin." For
example, if you create a Gtk.TreeView and set the vertical-separator style
property, that separator space will be displayed as white, and the selection
rectangle will be drawn around it when the cell is selected.

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#7

Updated by Eric Gregory 3 months ago

  * **Assignee** deleted (<strike>_Eric Gregory_</strike>)

####

#8

Updated by Jim Nelson 3 months ago

  * **Tracker** changed from _Bite-sized_ to _Feature_
  * **Target version** changed from _0.4.0_ to _0.5.0_

This is more involved that it looks. We'll return to this in 0.5.

####

#9

Updated by Jim Nelson 7 days ago

  * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.5.0_</strike>)



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 23:13 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 5877 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5877

Unknown version " in product geary. 
   Setting version to "!unspecified".
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 

Comment 1 Jim Nelson 2014-05-26 17:31:52 UTC
See also bug #730682.
Comment 2 Jim Nelson 2014-10-08 20:47:02 UTC
Daniel Fore suggests using CSS to draw the lines between the messages.  I don't know if this can be used to get empty space between the elements, but CSS might give us more leeway in how each cell is drawn.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1379017

See also bug #720850.
Comment 3 Michael Gratton 2019-01-15 06:40:30 UTC
Resolving as obsolete all bugs that should be resolved by the conversation list redesign (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730682). I'd mark them as a duplicate, but bz won't let me :(

Apologies for the noise.