GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 657095
Excessive horizontal padding in folder list
Last modified: 2014-05-05 14:56:10 UTC
In Evo 3.1.5 (or I guess this might be a GTK+ change...) the indent size at each level of the folder list tree view has been about doubled from 3.1.4 and below. This means I have to make the folder list quite a lot wider in order to see the full names of folders nested two or three levels deep in my tree, which in turn reduces the amount of horizontal space available for the message list (and means I can see less of the message subject). You might think everyone has acres of horizontal room these days, but that's not the case with lower resolution devices like netbooks or tablets, nor is it the case with vertically-oriented panels (I'm using a 1080x1920 display). I can't see that this brings any particular benefit, it just wastes a bunch of horizontal space, so it'd be nice if it could be reverted. Will attach screenshots.
Created attachment 194396 [details] Folder list from Evo 3.0, showing three levels of nesting Note the width of the whitespace ahead of 'ambassadors' folder. This was the state up till Evo 3.1.4.
Created attachment 194397 [details] Folder list from Evo 3.1.5, showing three levels of nesting Again, note the width of the whitespace ahead of 'ambassadors' folder. It's far wider than the previous screenshot.
Almost certainly a GTK+ style setting. The folder tree is a GtkTreeView widget. We don't control the indentation width.
ah, yeah - just checked, and nautilus is the same. moving to adwaita, I guess.
Not sure what we did there, Cosimo? Anyway frankly speaking I think the new indentation it clearer even if it takes more space.
The indentation in gtk3-demo seems pretty reasonable in master. Is this still a problem?
Yeah, looks pretty decent in current Rawhide.