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Bug 459369 - Much empty space to the right in theme switcher
Much empty space to the right in theme switcher
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Appearance
2.19.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
: 451585 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 460044
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-07-23 00:25 UTC by Martin Ejdestig
Modified: 2007-08-16 09:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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Screenshot showing empty space to the left (49.32 KB, image/png)
2007-07-23 00:27 UTC, Martin Ejdestig 		Details

Description Martin Ejdestig 2007-07-23 00:25:50 UTC 
There is much empty space to the left in the GtkIconView under the theme tab. I guess a "space out columns evenly" mode should be added to GtkIconView but that's pie in the sky thinking. (I'm guessing it won't go in in time for the next stable GTK+ release and it will probably take a while for the next stable release to come out.) In the mean time, perhaps the width of the dialog could be set in such a way as to minimize this empty space?
Comment 1 Martin Ejdestig 2007-07-23 00:27:23 UTC 
Created attachment 92180 [details]
Screenshot showing empty space to the left
Comment 2 Martin Ejdestig 2007-07-23 00:29:34 UTC 
Errr... seems I don't know left from right. Do a s/left/right/ while I go to sleep. :)
Comment 3 Thomas Wood 2007-07-25 09:57:53 UTC 
Not sure what we can do about that since there isn't such an option in GtkIconView. Perhaps you can file a bug against GtkIconView for a "space columns evenly" option?
Comment 4 Martin Ejdestig 2007-07-25 12:46:26 UTC 
Ah, I filed 460044 yesterday but forgot to add it as a dependency.

For the next year or so (I believe I heard somewhere that GTK 2.14+ should take about this long to bake) perhaps you can play around with the width of the dialog/icon view container (there's only a few pixels more to make room for 3 thumbnails/row for me) or the width of the thumbnails.
Comment 5 Thomas Wood 2007-07-25 22:10:14 UTC 
*** Bug 451585 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Thomas Wood 2007-08-16 09:30:00 UTC 
The "empty space" really depends on the theme you are using as a theme may alter the width of the scrollbars, which in turn would alter the width of the icon view. I don't think it would be a good idea to alter the size request of the icon view to try and prevent the empty space.