Re: [Gramps-devel] Column widths in the event tab

[Mathieu MD <mat...@gm...>]

On 05/06/2012 01:09, Nick Hall wrote:
> The problem is with setting the expand property on all the columns.  It
> looks wrong and is probably not what we want.

Well, it does not look that wrong on my setup, which is why I submitted it.

Anyway, it's far better than having the last column expanded way after 
the right limit of the window and not being able to resize it (which was 
the case on my setup).

> At the moment we effectively expand the last column, which is also not
> ideal.

I agree.

> We should pick one (or possibly two) columns only to expand.  Look at
> other applications for UI guidance here.  In most views the column
> widths have good defaults and there is a single column which is an
> obvious candidate to be expandable.

Having only a single (or two) columns expanded would lead to the same 
problem (ie. an oversized column). Wouldn't it better to pick the fixed 
columns, and left the expand attributes to others. As fixed columns, I 
see: ID, Gender and Last Changed, at least, and maybe Birth Date and 
Death Date also.

Bests
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Mathieu