[Glade-users] Glade UI Preferences

[alexey.kurochkin at pathfinderlwd.com (Alexey Kurochkin)]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:04 -0500, Alexey Kurochkin wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 08:59 -0500, Alexey Kurochkin wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 10:17 +0100, Simon Langley wrote:
> > > I am trying to use Glade on a netbook with a 1024x600 screen and when  
> > > the palette is integrated into the main display, I cannot resize the  
> > > window to fit on the screen.
> > >
> > > For some reason the palette window has a minimum size (when integrated  
> > > or separate) that is larger than strictly necessary.
> > >
> > > So, my questions are these.  Is there any way to get around the  
> > > (unnecessary) minimum size restriction?  If not, is there any way of  
> > > turning off the row of buttons on the main display to give a bit more  
> > > space?
> >
> > To my understanding the cause of the problem is the line
> >
> > gtk_widget_set_size_request (widget, -1, rows *
> > child_allocation.height);
> >
> > in the glade-palette-box.c file. It forces minimum height of the palette
> > to be the number of rows multiplied by the maximum height of a row,
> > which would be the height of the expander button plus the height of an
> > icon. I think it is mistake to multiply the height by the number of
> > rows, as there could be unreasonably many of them to fit the palette on
> > any screen at all. Maybe the size requisition should be even omitted
> > altogether. You can try to fiddle with that line, recompile, and see if
> > I'm right. In any case, file a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org to get it
> > fixed.

I filed a bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579624

> On the other hand I was completely wrong. That line is fine. Problem is
> even simpler. In the glade-window.c there's a line
> gtk_widget_set_size_request (palette, 200, 540);
>
> > > The only preferences I could find were for the project not Glade itself.
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