On 20 Dec 2007, at 4:58 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2007, at 5:11 AM, James Harrison wrote: > >> Also, Simon raised the minor issue previously of the amount of >> padding >> around the PDF previews in the right pane. The padding increases as >> the preview size increases, which eats up a good bit of screen space >> at the larger preview sizes. If it's not a good idea to fix the left >> side padding at a relatively narrow value, a reasonable alternative >> might be to save the scroll position of the right pane to the library >> file along with the icon size (which is currently saved). That would >> allow folks to position their preview display to the size, width and >> extent of padding desired. > > The padding is a value used in layout of the entire grid, so having it > smaller on the edges isn't really an option. If you select an icon, > you'll see that it's actually drawn in a square, and there's very > little padding on the left (and the title extends into the padded > area). Some of those layout choices were based on the assumption that > it would be in the bottom preview pane in BD, so you'd see them laid > out horizontally and vertically. >
As a remark on James's remarks, the padding is actually smaller when the icon size is smaller, though percentually it is bigger (it is calculated as 32 + iconwidth / 14). I guess we could make it a bit smaller. What about 5 * round(2 + iconwidth / 50) ? Christiaan > What scroll position are you referring to? > > -- > adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
