Bug 671876 - Keyboard shortcut GUI is not resizable and hardly usable
Summary: Keyboard shortcut GUI is not resizable and hardly usable
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: control-center
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Control Center Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-01-22 11:25 UTC by Zdenek Kabelac
Modified: 2011-02-08 14:48 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-02-07 19:10:03 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Unresizable GUI (24.72 KB, image/png)
2011-01-22 11:25 UTC, Zdenek Kabelac
no flags Details
Bigger config window with greyed elements (45.19 KB, image/png)
2011-02-08 10:02 UTC, Zdenek Kabelac
no flags Details

Description Zdenek Kabelac 2011-01-22 11:25:51 UTC
Created attachment 474732 [details]
Unresizable GUI

Description of problem:

Configuration of keyboard shortcuts is hardly usable.
GUI windows is not resizable (at least not in current
metacity/gnome-shell) - in fact many windows seems to prohibit
its resize - wondering why ??

Even design of this config windows is quite unusable as well.

See attached picture - when lots of text needs to be scrolled
to be even able to read a simple text line - why do we have displays
like 1600x1050 when we need to use fixed size GUI 700x300.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
control-center-2.91.5-1.fc15.x86_64

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Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2011-02-07 19:10:03 UTC
Try 2.91.6, the window is now much bigger.

Comment 2 Zdenek Kabelac 2011-02-08 10:01:03 UTC
Well - I can confirm that window is bigger - and now at least partially usable - but it's IMHO still done in bad way.

I don't understand why the window is NOT resizeable - Is this some 'new way of gnome-life' ?

And what for are 'Add-toolbutton/remove-toolbutton' elements greyed on the bottom of 'Shortcuts' tab ?

I think this gnome-gui really needs some more professional look - as not resizeable config windows were already discovered in W95 era I guess and it's was not seen as success - it's upto user to decide how big the window should be.
(see attached windows - where I still need to use scroll bar -  even though I've 3 times bigger workspace to show the whole list at once).

So I would prefer probably to keep this bug still opened - until good solution is found.

Comment 3 Zdenek Kabelac 2011-02-08 10:02:08 UTC
Created attachment 477587 [details]
Bigger config window with greyed elements

Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2011-02-08 14:48:21 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Well - I can confirm that window is bigger - and now at least partially usable
> - but it's IMHO still done in bad way.
> 
> I don't understand why the window is NOT resizeable - Is this some 'new way of
> gnome-life' ?

The control-center panels aren't resizable.

> And what for are 'Add-toolbutton/remove-toolbutton' elements greyed on the
> bottom of 'Shortcuts' tab ?

Because that particular panel is not finished implementing.

If you have particular complaints, please file them upstream.


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