minimum panel size

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Sat Jan 14 19:33:06 CET 2006


Jani Monoses schreef:
> Hi
> 
> this patch puts panel min/max sizes into defines so they are not
> hardcoded in different places. 

Thanks, I'll add that. Btw, I'd prefer it if you gave the patches a 
slightly more descriptive name, like panel-size.patch.

> I got here by seeing hangs of the
> desktop-menu plugin when the panel is brought down to minimum size (12
> currently). After changing the min size to 16 the problem no longer
> appears. I assume it is something to do with hardcoded limits in the
> menu plugin set_size functions interacting with the panel's own limits
> and may a be a gtk label bug triggered because of not sane resizing
> params. The bug only occurs if there's a label beside the icon in the
> menu plugin.
> 
> But I have a related question: isn't 12 too small of a size for the
> panel? The icons and text are barely visible even at 16 or 20 pixels at
> least on my 800 pixel high screen. Maybe it's a bit better in 800x600.
> 

Good question. I don't know. I'm fine with 16 as minimum size as well.

Thanks,
	Jasper



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