Netbook-friendliness

[Chris DeJoseph]

The scroll bars would only appear if it detects elements of the window are
outside of the window, so the preferences window wouldn't usually have
them, seeing as quite frankly, there's allot of wasted vertical space with
that window I find

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Chris DeJoseph <viperfan747 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry for the delay in the response, but the solution I was thinking of
> was reduce the size of the windows, and inject scroll bars as necissary
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Etan Reisner <deryni at pidgin.im> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 05:47:24PM -0400, Chris DeJoseph wrote:
>> > I'm thinking that having them re-size about 15% or 20% shorter then the
>> > vertical resolution if it is lower then the default window height ED(600
>> > height resolution, window height would thus be 480), as it is almost all
>> > windows are small enough to fit fine on a 1440*600 screen, its just that
>> > some of the taller windows seem a bit out of proportion when compared to
>> > the rest on that size of screen, and this solution is meant for any
>> windows
>> > with this problem, since realy, this problem is annoying to solve as
>> most
>> > possible solutions have to be made on a per situation basis
>>
>> So your solution is to visibly shrink the contents of the window? Or was
>> that just make the window itself smaller and inject scrollbars in the
>> content area or something? Because neither of those is really a solution
>> to a problem so much as ugly workarounds.
>>
>> And yes, this sort of problem generally requires case-specific solutions
>> which is why that's what I asked you for since you are actively looking at
>> the problem and I am not.
>>
>>    -Etan
>>
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