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Re: [O] [RFC] Shrink columns dynamically
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Eric S Fraga |
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Re: [O] [RFC] Shrink columns dynamically |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:10:45 +0100 |
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Hi Nicolas,
I agree completely with your stated objective, specifically separating
viewing from content and/or export. However, I am not sure this is
achievable without losing some quite appealing current functionality.
I have two use cases which currently are managed with the width cookies
and I can see that they probably should be managed differently. The
cases are:
1. a table with wide columns that is used to collect information
(publications with authors, title, journal, etc. is an example) and
which I use mostly by looking at it. That is, I open the document
and scan down the table or page down or whatever. I want this table
displayed initially with columns (e.g. title) narrowed to a specified
width.
2. a table with many columns, too many of the screen width even if each
column may only be a few characters wide, but one which I intend to
be manipulating extensively. In this case, I may want to
shrink/narrow/hide columns to make it easier to edit and do
calculations.
At present, I use width cookies for both. They work well for use case
1; much less well for use case 2. For me, these use cases are
orthogonal. I would be happy with two different approaches or the same
approach so long as the latter would retain the ability to save the view
(for use case 1).
As always, I look forward to whatever you decide to implement!
thanks,
eric
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