GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 42870
Windows are too tall for Vaio C1XD picturebook (1024x480 pixels).
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date Time Type Category Subject ---- ---- ---- -------- ------- 08:18:2000 05:33:14 Feature Reques Usability window height IP: 62.161.150.9 Email: tony@animaproductions.com Hi Great but... Windows are too heigh on Vaio C1XD picturebook (1024x480 pixels). You are not alone - Gnome control panel has same interface default... Just when you thought everybody was using 800x600 pixels... May I suggest you re-read Tog and Nielsen =;-] Cheers Tony Grant ------- Additional Comments From arlo@workthatmouse.com 2000-09-07 12:44:00 ---- Sigh... John, any comments? ------- Additional Comments From victor@eazel.com 2000-09-07 13:40:23 ---- Not sure about Tog, but his reference to Nielsen has to do with usability and developing views that support different user configurations and environments. ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-09-07 13:52:10 ---- Tog and Nielsen are both excellent pontificators on the topic of how everything should be wonderful all the time. I agree that Nautilus would be better if it ran on PalmPCs and display wristwatches. But that's kinda irrelevant. Right now the window height is hardwired, and we should measure the screen size before hardwiring it (and maybe in addition find some way to avoid hardwiring it entirely). ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-09-08 16:38:18 ---- Oops, wrong dependency bug number. ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-09-19 10:19:51 ---- Assigning this bug to myself. I will fix it by making sure the window starts out at a size that fits on the screen (by taking screen size into account). ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-09-19 10:30:24 ---- Windows are now shrinkable (to a certain limit), and the initial dimensions take the screen size into account. ------- Additional Comments From victor@eazel.com 2000-10-04 16:49:10 ---- > ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-09-19 10:30 ------- > Windows are now shrinkable (to a certain limit), and the initial dimensions > take the screen size into account. What is the certain limit or is it user defined? Here is a a user suggesting sizes. -------------------------------------------------- Nautilus Feedback - Text View (Click the BACK button to return to the Log Viewer -------------------------------------------------- Date Time Type Source Category Subject ---- ---- ---- ------ -------- ------- 09:16:2000 06:20:46 None PR1-Binary Usability problems with large windows IP: 140.180.153.116 Email: wmitchen@princeton.edu Hi, nautilus is really great so far, but I have a complaint about the size of its windows. I use 800x600 screen resolution, and at first, the smallest I could shrink the nautilus window was to about 450x500. The reason I want the window smaller is so I can see several at once and drag-and-drop between them, and with windows that big, I can't really see two at once. I turned off the toolbars and was able to make the view much smaller. However, once I did that, the ability to set the zoom level appeared to be gone. It appears in the right-click menu but not the main menu and it took me a while to find it. There is also no longer a way to switch from icon view to list view, or to type in a URL. I suggest maybe changing the layout menu to a view menu and adding zoom and view type commands. I must add that I like the fact that you have minimized the use of sub-menus. Thanks for the great work! ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-10-04 17:09:34 ---- This comment is from a user running the old version where the windows were not resizable by the user. The only way to make them smaller was to remove the toolbars/menu bars/etc, not by stretching manually. I can tell he has an old version because the zooming commands have been in the main menu for awhile now. Probably he is using PR1. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:38 ------- Bug depends on bug(s) 41244. The original reporter (victor@eazel.com) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.