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Bug 597917 - Panes don't retain size (width) after a restart
Panes don't retain size (width) after a restart
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 561586
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.26.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-09 15:49 UTC by jonathanevatt
Modified: 2010-10-19 11:18 UTC
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Description jonathanevatt 2009-10-09 15:49:45 UTC
I am not sure if this bug has been filed already as it was hard to find a set of search terms that would pull up specific enough results. I did find this one:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559970
but it relates to the tasks/memos section, which I have not tested for this error.

The issue is this:
In the email view I have three verticle panes. Starting from the left, 1) Folder tree, 2) Email list, 3) Message preview (in vertical mode)

I find that the default width of the email list is not wide enough, and the message preview is wider than I need it. I adjust the width, making the list of emails wider and the message preview thiner.

When I restart Evolution it goes back to the default setting and I have to adjust it again... each time I open Evolution. It's somewhat of an inconvenience. Is this a bug? I think it must be, as I can find no information online on how to get it to hold the display settings.

I run Evolution on Ubuntu
Comment 1 jonathanevatt 2009-11-07 15:21:33 UTC
Hello,
I posted this issue close to one month ago now.
I see there has been no activity on this report since. What more do I need to provide?
Is this not a bug? Is it a feature? Is there some way to stop Evolution from reverting back to the same width for the inbox panel?

Thanks.

Ubuntu 9.10
Evolution Mail 2.26.1
Comment 2 michael.pfeiffer 2010-09-07 20:38:58 UTC
Hi there,
still same problem here with Ubuntu 10.04 and Evolution 2.28.3.

There is a key in GConf which seems to be there for storing the width (and another one for the height if you use the default and not the vertical view).

Default view:
/apps/evolution/mail/display/paned_size
defaults to 144

Vertical view as described here:
/apps/evolution/mail/display/hpaned_size
defaults to 450

This is a bit annoying because then, for example, dates in the message pane get cut off. At least for me, a width of 550 is great.

However, even if you change the value of the key manually, evolution sets it back to the default value on startup.

Thanks for reading :-)
Comment 3 michael.pfeiffer 2010-09-07 20:54:58 UTC
Sorry about that, but seems to be a duplicate of 555125
Comment 4 Milan Crha 2010-10-19 11:18:02 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 561586 ***