On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 13:57, Nick Treleaven <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 01:59:43 +0200 > Jiří Techet <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 30 is too little. For instance >> >> /home/techet/projects/geany/geany.geany >> >> is 39 characters long and this is really short path. I find 50 >> characters to be about minimal usable size so users do not have >> to scroll inside the edit box too often. > > 50 makes the dialog seem too wide IMO. The user can stretch the dialog > as well as scroll the entry. I don't like forcing the entry to be at > least 50 characters wide, I wouldn't mind so much if it displays as 50 > so long as the screen can take it, but could be reduced by GTK or > the user if necessary.
I agree the dialog looks better with not so wide entries, on the other hand I *always* have to scroll the entry to be able to edit the path at the end. But I don't care so much about the future of this patch, it's just a minor usability problem I have noticed. Jiri > > Regards, > Nick > _______________________________________________ > Geany-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel > _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
