Support Requests item #1410619, was opened at 2006-01-20 04:33 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by cwal You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200235&aid=1410619&group_id=235 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: CWAL (cwal) Date: 2006-01-21 12:04 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1410499 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" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bishop (mtbishop) Date: 2006-01-20 18:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=10830 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2006-01-20 17:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 no, it isn't writing outside the .gaim directory, the labels in the beta are just unclear. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bishop (mtbishop) Date: 2006-01-20 17:15 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=10830 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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2006-01-20 07:45 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200235&aid=1410619&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. 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