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Re: [Pan-users] squished headers pane columns
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Duncan |
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Re: [Pan-users] squished headers pane columns |
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Wed, 3 Oct 2012 09:52:44 +0000 (UTC) |
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thufir posted on Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:36:37 +0000 as excerpted:
> At first the additional columns were squished to, I guess, a zero width,
> but by stretching or shrinking the first column other columns then
> became visible. Weird.
I've seen that a few times too (but not that I recall with pan), in three
different types of instances.
1) The app had no way to toggle off a column but I didn't use it, so I
made it zero-width.
2) A column judged to be for "expert" use. IIRC kde3's task list used to
do this with PPID, since it already displayed PID, and had a "tree"
option that would make parent (and thus its PID) obvious already.
3) Cases where an app changed config file format, and I was using the new
version with the old config file. (A sub-case of this is when a toolkit-
library such as gtk changes, thus changing the app's layout even if it's
exactly the same app code only now built against and/or simply running
with a new toolkit library; it doesn't have to be the /app's/ code that
changes!)
This last case is the one I was wondering about, since you'd just
upgraded, thus my suggestion to test with a fresh user config if you'd
kept /home and reused the same user config after the upgrade.
Meanwhile, it's worth noting that in some, but not all cases, a zero-
width column is hinted at in the GUI, if you know what to look for. It
can be either a slightly different divider (like a double-divider) when
they're stacked, or a different divider-hover-arrow.
In kde and very possibly all qt apps, hovering over the divider shows a
divider-arrow, like this:
<-|->
... instead of the normal simple double-headed arrow. The kde app I just
tried wouldn't let me zero-width a column, but IIRC, where it's possible
to have zero-width columns and thus stacked dividers, kde/qt changes to:
<-||->
That makes it a bit easier to discover and expand the hidden columns, but
you still have to hover in the right spot, so either having a minimum
width of something like a half a character, or having a distinctive
divider symbol for stacked dividers in the title row, makes finding the
hidden columns even easier.
But FWIW, tho kde/qt apps give me the "divider arrow", gtk2 apps only
give me the usual double-headed arrow. I don't have gtk3 installed, so I
can't say what it does.
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