Re: [Synaptic-devel] Testversion 1 for 0.53 available

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Sonntag, den 01.08.2004, 23:40 +0200 schrieb Leendert Meyer:
> On Sunday 01 August 2004 22:53, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 01.08.2004, 20:28 +0200 schrieb Leendert Meyer:
> > > On Sunday 01 August 2004 18:34, Michael Vogt wrote:

> > > >  - Properties of the package can optionally be shown in main window
> > >
> > > Hmmm, this probably needs a minimal size restriction. Some weird things
> > > happen at the bottom if the size is shrunk to the smallest possible (i.e.
> > > height=0), especially with the 'Common' tab. With 'weird things' I mean:
> > > the statusbar at the bottom is disturbed or covered by other widgets.
> >
> > There are some problems in Glade, that we use to draw some windows. If
> > we disallow to shrink parts of the window the application might hang up
> > under some circumstances.
> 
> Disallow? Hmm, perhaps I was not clear enough? I meant restrict the height of 
> the properties widget to a minimum.

I think that I was a little bit to unclear. Restricting the height to a
minumum is to disallow shrinking.

> > > The 'Common' tab needs a vertical scrollbar. All other tabs have one, and
> > > it appears if needed, but not the 'Common' tab.
> >
> > Same as above. But scrolling native widgets is a bad decision - we
> > haven't had the time (yet) to implement a text field in the common tab.
> 
> I suppose one needs to put the controls on a container widget, and provide 
> that container widget with a vertical scrollbar...

You are right. I was talking about the ideal way.

> > > In the 'Version' tab, the Text color appears as gray (not black). Is this
> > > intended?
> >
> > This is already fixed in the current development tree, but I thought
> > that this change would not be worth recompiling the packages.
> 
> Well... ;P

Hey, I am a busy person :)

Regards,

Sebastian