Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: yelp
Ubuntu 9.10, GNOME (2.28?)
The following is not a technical bug, but three features whose design is
inappropriate. The issue is, thus, userfriendlyness. In the first two cases,
the number of symbols that fit on the panel is at stake.
1) In the GNOME panel, symbols are sized automatically by an algorithm
that looks whether the shortest dimension X of the panel is width or
height, accordingly fixes the width or the height of each symbol to the
same value as X and finally calculates the other dimension Y of each
symbol in proportion to X. The extension Y of each synbol then, of
course, determines how many symbols fit on the panel.
This has the following consequence: Assume the panel is vertically
arranged. Then the wider I size the panel, the higher become the
symbols. The consequence is, of course, that the wider I size the panel,
the fewer symbols fit on it. This is counterproductive. The solution
seems to be: Allow the user to fix an upper value for symbol size
(either X or Y, if the proportion calculus is to be maintained). Or else
fix such an upper value yourself.
2) The labels of the menu categories ('Anwendungen', 'Orte', 'System' in
my German version) are arranged vertically if the panel is arranged
vertically. Accordingly they occupy a large portion of the panel. They
do not even go into the horizontal dimension if I set the panel width to
256 pixels. The solution appears to be: Leave these words in the
horizontal dimension, and insert a hyphen break in them in case the
panel is not wide enough.
3) The more my panel is occupied by symbols, the harder it becomes to
find a spot on the panel where to click if one wants to edit properties
of the panel itself. With panel width of 256 pixels (admittedly, an
unreasonable value), no such spot is left at all. Thus, I can never
again resize my panel to a different value. The solution for the latter
problem appears to be: Allow the user to shift the panel size by cursor
dragging (as under MS Windows). However, more in general it ought to be
clearer where on the panel one may click in order to access panel
properties.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 6c6e7bbff51975d78fcd9034dc09ace1
CheckboxSystem: da9af3b901b5569a389df6337f3d812f
Date: Fri Jan 8 11:49:05 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
lang=de...@euro
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64
** Affects: yelp (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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size of symbols on GNOME panel inappropriate
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/504719
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