[Geany] Symbol list whitespace

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Wed Nov 21 17:21:49 UTC 2007


On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:46:45 +0100, Harold Aling <h.aling at home.nl>
wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:08:00 +0100, Enrico Tröger
> <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> > > Ok, I tried a darker background but it doesn't look good with the
> >> > icons and so I committed some changes to make the section name
> >> > bold. At the moment this affects also the sections if the
> >> > expanders are shown. Right now, I'm not sure whether it looks
> >> > good or whether it should be disabled for the usual view. Any
> >> > opinions?
> >> 
> >> I haven't tried it yet, but there's also the option of setting an
> >> extra indent when expanders are hidden - this is in the 2.12 API.
> > Yes of course. I read about while adding the hidden expanders pref.
> > But I forget it again because it only adds an additional
> > indentation but now, with hidden expanders, it's just what we need.
> > Harold and the others, isn't it better to use some small
> > indentation if expanders are hidden instead of bold sections?
> > So, much space is saved by removing the expanders and a little is
> > added to keep it readable.
> 
> Whatever suits you best... I'm all about the saved space, but
> readibility is important too.
> 
> If the indentation is not too wide, it'll probably be the best
> option... (although the 'bold' headings were not so bad either).
I just changed to code to not make the sections bold but use a small
indentation(10px should be fair). This makes the treeview look more
natural like a treeview but still saves a lot of whitespace.

Regards,
Enrico

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