[ gaim-Support Requests-1410619 ] left-justify contacts when contact window narrowed

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Support Requests item #1410619, was opened at 2006-01-20 04:33
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Bishop (mtbishop)
Assigned to: Etan Reisner (deryni9)
Summary: left-justify contacts when contact window narrowed

Initial Comment:
When I've reduced the width of the contact window in
2.0.0b1 (win98se) so it's actually not intrusive and is
off to the one side where it should be, the names of my
contacts are needlessly hard to read at times.

Narrow your contact list to its lowest and best setting
and you'll see:  

    [-] Work (3/16)
    William

    is actually

    [-] Work (3/..  
          Will...

Not sure why the huge left-margin is there, but I'm
thinking maybe recycling some of that real estate just
to the left of 'Will...' may allow all of 'William' to
be readable.  I'd hate to send my anti-rodent
propaganda to 'Willard' instead of 'William', and when
one's working fast, it could very well happen.

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Comment By: CWAL (cwal)
Date: 2006-01-21 12:04

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I had the same problem (getting the expanders smaller), and
after much experimenting found that the best way to get it
as small as possible and still be able to tell what it is is
to have the following settings:
expander size:2
indent expanders:2
horizontal separator:0

If you are having trouble getting it to work, put the
following in C:/Program Files/Common
Files/GTK/2.0/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

style "gaimrc_style" {
GtkTreeView::expander_size = 2
GtkTreeView::indent_expanders = 2
GtkTreeView::horizontal_separator = 0
}widget_class "*" style "gaimrc_style"


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Comment By: Bishop (mtbishop)
Date: 2006-01-20 18:14

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Oh, you're right, how silly of me.  It is trying to write to
c:\windows\application_date\.gaim , which is the best
location for CVS bliss.

I must be using it incorrectly, however:  I've been testing
its use by greatly altering a font setting and seeing if it
makes any difference to the windows.  No go.  In fact, I can
[x] set a font (to be customized?) but any font changes on
any line aren't preserved between sessions.

In fact, I can make a change, write a gtkrc file, then undo
my change and reload my gtk file - which should cause my
recent changes to be over-written by reloading the files
from scratch, right? - but there's no reversion.

Is there a problem in the code executed when I click the
re-laod button?  I can make changes, close gaim, re-open it
and not see those changes.

But I'm just a win98 guy, that breed so declining that no
one makes software for us any longer.  Once I get a winxp
box up again, maybe I'll take another look and find it all
just works.  I'm glad that at least the cvs sync between
everything works so well, since the preservation of the
contact list as I jump from linux to 98 to XP is far more
important than silly contact list readibility.

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Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere)
Date: 2006-01-20 17:29

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no, it isn't writing outside the .gaim directory, the labels
in the beta are just unclear. 



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Comment By: Bishop (mtbishop)
Date: 2006-01-20 17:15

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Ah!  It almost looks like i can.  Excellent.

Um, so do I want Expander Indentation or actually Horizontal
Separation?  They're both improtant-sounding attributes that
almost reflect what I wanna do.

Maybe a it-will-look-like-this realtime updater would be
spiffy there, but way too much work.  As long as we can
understand the parameters we're poking, it shoudl do the trick.

Ugh, but it's writing a file outside of my .gaim directory,
which means I have to magically get CVS to store and sync
that file between my win and linux boxes.  It can't write
something in the .gaim directory so it's all in one tree?

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Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere)
Date: 2006-01-20 07:45

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you can reduce the size of this gap using the gtkrc theme
plugin in gaim's beta.  unfortunately its results do not
take effect in real time. 

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