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Bug 657095 - Excessive horizontal padding in folder list
Excessive horizontal padding in folder list
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-themes-standard
Classification: Core
Component: Adwaita GTK3 theme
3.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-08-22 17:28 UTC by Adam Williamson
Modified: 2014-05-05 14:56 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Folder list from Evo 3.0, showing three levels of nesting (76.46 KB, image/png)
2011-08-22 17:31 UTC, Adam Williamson
Details
Folder list from Evo 3.1.5, showing three levels of nesting (98.34 KB, image/png)
2011-08-22 17:34 UTC, Adam Williamson
Details

Description Adam Williamson 2011-08-22 17:28:10 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.
Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2011-08-22 17:31:33 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2011-08-22 17:34:12 UTC
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.
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2011-08-22 18:15:02 UTC
Almost certainly a GTK+ style setting.  The folder tree is a GtkTreeView widget.  We don't control the indentation width.
Comment 4 Adam Williamson 2011-08-22 18:33:24 UTC
ah, yeah - just checked, and nautilus is the same. moving to adwaita, I guess.
Comment 5 Lapo Calamandrei 2012-03-01 13:11:36 UTC
Not sure what we did there, Cosimo?
Anyway frankly speaking I think the new indentation it clearer even if it takes more space.
Comment 6 William Jon McCann 2014-05-05 11:34:17 UTC
The indentation in gtk3-demo seems pretty reasonable in master. Is this still a problem?
Comment 7 Adam Williamson 2014-05-05 14:56:10 UTC
Yeah, looks pretty decent in current Rawhide.