Netbook-friendliness

[Chris DeJoseph]

Actualy, instead of scroll bars, why not have each subsection in the
preference window be collapsible, where appropriate, so the different
subsections of say, the Interface section of the preference window would
collapse/expand if the name of the subsection is clicked, this way it would
be possible to reduce the size of the window, and not have it absolutely
necessary to have the entire page scrollable, except for instances with
multiple subsections being expanded at once. Although it is quite a bit
more complex.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Etan Reisner <deryni at pidgin.im> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 06:29:52PM -0500, Chris DeJoseph wrote:
> > 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
>
> Is there wasted space on *every* page or just on some? Because the window
> needs to be tall enough to account for every page and scrollbars really
> aren't a viable solution as they will make the dialog significantly more
> unwieldy and ugly.
>
> It might be possible to have the scrollbars only show up if the dialog is
> larger than the screen but I'm not sure if there's a way to make that
> automatic and if there isn't (which I expect) then that means playing
> rather horrible games with attempting to determine final display size of
> the window and changing the layout of the window on the fly or (and this
> is likely simpler but also more ugly) detecting that the window, once
> displayed, is taller than the screen and visibly resizing it.
>
> Which page(s), in particular, are too large for your screen?
> What, specific, suggestions do you have, if any, for ways we can cause
> that page to be less vertically tall?
>
> Spurred by your original there was a brief discussion in the pidgin XMPP
> MUC room about this where I commented that (on my screen) the two long
> pages are Conversations and Sounds.
>
> The Sounds page should auto-scale since the large 'Sound Events' section
> is already in a scrollable area I believe.
>
> I suggested that, for the Conversations page, we could move the 'Show
> detailed information' (and 'Enable buddy icon animation') checkboxes to
> the Interface page and that that might help a little. I don't know how
> much that'd help (or if it would actually help at all) but it was the best
> I could come up with at a quick glance.
>
>    -Etan
>
> P.S. It should be noted, for the record, that some time ago we had a large
> overhaul of the preferences dialog with a mind to keeping it vertically
> reasonable. It would appear though that it has grown a bit since then.
>
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