GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 751442
Fixed width notes
Last modified: 2018-05-04 12:46:26 UTC
As a rule of thumb, lines of text shouldn't be more than 12 words long: after that, they become difficult to read. Paragraph structure also gets lost. Currently, note text fills the enter width of the window, which means that lines are frequently too long. It also means that short notes can be constrained to the top of the window, which doesn't look very good. My suggestion to deal with this issue is to: 1. Constrain the note text to a maximum width. 2. Increase the size of note text. 3. Increase padding between lines and paragraphs (see bug 740338). How it could look: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/notes/windowed-inline-note.png
The example makes the text look more substantial, but now the window is 50% useless. Is there something we can do with the dead space on either side? Maybe move the formatting controls there if the window is wide enough by some threshold? If the note is going to take over the whole window, I think it should be a little more respectful of the screen real estate it takes up, either by re-sizing itself to fit the arbitrary content width, or by using that space for something else. Would it make sense to move the note to one side and put a list of notes on the left?
(In reply to thub from comment #1) > The example makes the text look more substantial, but now the window is 50% > useless. Is there something we can do with the dead space on either side? > Maybe move the formatting controls there if the window is wide enough by > some threshold? > > If the note is going to take over the whole window, I think it should be a > little more respectful of the screen real estate it takes up, either by > re-sizing itself to fit the arbitrary content width, or by using that space > for something else. > > Would it make sense to move the note to one side and put a list of notes on > the left? A bit of void is not that bad to focus on the current note ; however your comments are not to be neglected. A notes list would disrupt current design. Apart from Files, this would be too much different from other applications. Resizing the window might hurt the user. Moving the formatting controls might be the smarter, but this raises one question : what if the window is not wide enough? Working on this question might be interesting
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