On Thursday, December 20, 2007, at 08:31AM, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>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) ?

I don't think it can really shrink below 32 because the text is drawn in the 
(vertical) padding.  If there were no labels, it could be a lot tighter.

-- adam

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