[Design] Adjustable width sidebar: bug 6216

[Sheila Mooney]

I also like Markku's suggestion of the tooltips that show the full  
collection name since a couple of my collections names are slightly  
too long to display. Providing this is easier than the adjustable  
sidebar it might be a good interim solution.

On Jul 7, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> Mimi Yin wrote:
>> 1. An alternate layout for the mini-calendar so that it doesn't  
>> float in
>> the middle of a sidebar that is much wider than the mini-calendar  
>> itself.
>
> This seems to me to be merely a cosmetical issue, and if I have  
> sidebar
> entries that simply won't fit in the current width it would seem more
> important to me that they fit as opposed to making minicalendar  
> look nice.
>
>> 2. A custom splitter tha won't make the divider between the  
>> sidebar and
>> the summary pane take up more pixels. (see Apple Mail, iTunes and  
>> iPhoto
>> as examples).
>
> I am generally against custom control work. I'd much rather we  
> innovate
> on functionality rather than in polish.
>
>> 3. The ability to 'snap back' to the original width.
>
> It seems like this would be trivial to do. Just add a menu item to
> revert to default layout and size.
>
> -- 
>   Heikki Toivonen
>
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