GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 695716
Increase the default window size for Yelp
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:01:33 UTC
With getting-started integrated into gnome-help, the default size for a new Yelp window does not suffice to display embedded videos, subtitles, still images and other rich content. I am not quite sure about the right dimensions: 910, 620 seems not to be enough, so something like 1024, 709 seems more appropriate.
Created attachment 238710 [details] Yelp's default window size with getting-started displayed
1024 is insanely wide. On my laptop, that might as well be fully maximized. This goes against the design of Yelp, which is to sit off to the side so you can still see the app you're getting help for. It also makes all the normal text content look terrible, and that's still the vast majority of our content. We either need to make the videos smaller, perhaps auto-scaling like we do for images in figures, or we need to pop them out of the Yelp window, maybe fullscreen.
I agree it should be bigger. The attached screenshot clearly shows this is unusable. So either we need a layout that scales to fit horizontally (like the svg figures do) or have to have a size that doesn't make the page look utterly broken.
Petr, we have a hack in the welcome tour launcher script to force the size of the window - does that not work anymore, or do we need to update the size we set there ?
(In reply to comment #4) > Petr, we have a hack in the welcome tour launcher script to force the size of > the window - does that not work anymore, or do we need to update the size we > set there ? For the script, I already adjusted the window size in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694885 The original values (910, 620) didn't seem to be enough to show the subtitles below the videos, so I went with 1024, 709. I filed 695716 to try to fix the window size in a non-hacky way. :-)
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