Bug 343825

Summary:	YaST Qt Control Center: layout suggestions
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Vilem Marsik <vmarsik>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	forgotten_h13THG8RK1, suse-beta
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Found By:	System Test	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	A picture for illustration picture

Description Vilem Marsik 2007-11-23 14:37:11 UTC

I suggest to make the YaST main window some 10px higher, so that "Hardware" and "System" sections do not scroll.

Alternatively, you could use less free space around the icons (without resizing the window).

Comment 1 Vilem Marsik 2007-11-23 14:38:14 UTC

Created attachment 184563 [details]
A picture for illustration

A picture for illustration

Comment 2 Forgotten User h13THG8RK1 2007-11-25 16:24:48 UTC

Hi Vilem, your attachment is corrupt or something. You should upload it again.

Comment 3 Christian Boltz 2007-11-25 21:21:08 UTC

The attachment is probably affected by bug 343877 :-(

And BTW, there is a patch to save the window size of the YaST main window - bug 226371. Kick HuHa if you want it included (yes, I *really* mean "kick" ;-)

Comment 4 Forgotten User h13THG8RK1 2007-11-25 22:32:20 UTC

Alright. So, while bug 343877 is addressed, Vilem tell us what exactly are you referring to? The KDE or the Gnome Yast control center?

(There are a lot of yast-related components. QA assigned this to Michael Meeks, and I don't think this is related to yast-gtk. Is it?)

Comment 5 Vilem Marsik 2007-11-26 18:45:44 UTC

Created attachment 184749 [details]
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Comment 6 Vilem Marsik 2007-11-26 18:47:35 UTC

And what am I referring to? 'yast2' run under X & KDE.

Comment 7 Vance Baarda 2007-11-26 18:54:56 UTC

Attachment problem is fixed.

Comment 8 Forgotten User h13THG8RK1 2007-11-26 19:30:40 UTC

I guess what they should do is calculate the List width for 2 and 3 columns (as it depends on font size, localization, and the tools you have installed), and based on that information, and the screen size and ratio, set a more sensible default size. It should also save the previous size as pointed by Christian Boltz.

Comment 9 Forgotten User h13THG8RK1 2007-11-26 19:34:03 UTC

QA: reassign this to Yast-Qt Control Center (I think its the same maintainer of yast-qt)

Comment 10 Stefan Hundhammer 2007-12-03 11:52:33 UTC

Since the content is dynamic (depending on what YaST modules are installed), there is no optimum size where users won't have to scroll the right subwindow (with the module icons). On my setup, for example, I'd have to make room for 3 more rows of icons for hardware.

So we chose the usual height of the left subwindow (the module group list) as the default height so at least users don't have to scroll both.

There is no real solution to this. Whichever height I choose will make another user unhappy.


Besides, we are in the process of redesigning the control center completely.