Re: Information Area taking over worksheet

[chris dunn <chris iccqs com>]

Jean,

Thanks for this. 

As you suggest, and as noted in paragraph 3 below, I've been manually
adjusting the size of the box. What then seems to happen while I'm
working, is that, as I'm scrolling through my tabs using the right
arrow that is to the left of the handle you mention, the box suddenly
reverts to its previous size and covers up a whole lot of the tabs.

As far as I can see it is random behaviour and not connected to
any particular action on my part (except for the use of the right arrow
button).


On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:09:57 +0100
Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org> wrote:

> You can change the size of the shhet tabs area by dragging the handle
> to the right.
>
> Regards,
> Jean
>
> Le jeudi 21 janvier 2010 à 11:49 -0500, chris dunn a écrit :
> > Gnumeric has started a very annoying habit of opening up a box to
> > the left of the Information Area (bottom right corner of the
> > display) in width so that the width of the display of tab names is
> > much reduced. This results in only being able to see a small number
> > of the sheet tab names instead of a full-width display showing a
> > larger number of sheet tab names. I'm not sure what this box is
> > called or what is it's function.
> >
> > Now I'm sure this didn't use to happen, and when I opened one of my
> > sheets with lots of tabs I could see all (or very many) of the sheet
> > tab names in almost the full-width of the display after opening the
> > sheet. As far as I recall this spacing remained static, and there
> > was no attempt by the box left of the Information Area to hijack
> > the space. Perhaps there was no such box?
> >
> > Now when I open a sheet I seem to get a fairly normal sized
> > Information Area, an empty box to the left of the IA taking up
> > about 2/3 of the display width, and a small area to the left of
> > that with just a couple of the tab names shown. There is a handle
> > left of the empty box which allows me to minimise its width and
> > display more tab names. Fine, but then while I'm working this rogue
> > box once again widens and closes down the tab names so that I have
> > to keep going through the process of reducing the box width. 
> >
> > Am I the only one suffering from this infuriating behaviour or is
> > it an aggravation to others also? Am I missing something obvious
> > which would allow me to control this rude box? What is the box for?
> > Can I dispense with it?
> >
> > Help, please.