Description: The Manage Changes dialog is ridiculously wide and cannot be resized to make it narrower. It just uselessly takes up screen space. Could you, please, make its minimum width smaller again? Perhaps even very small, such as 10px? What's the point of limiting its minimum width anyway? Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open any document. 2. Open the Manage Changes dialog 3. See how ridiculously wide it is. Actual Results: It's way too wide and I can't make it any narrower! Expected Results: I should definitely be able to make it narrower than half of my 1366px display. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Version: 6.3.0.4 Build ID: 057fc023c990d676a43019934386b85b21a9ee99 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
Created attachment 153734 [details] This is the minimum width of the Manage Changes window on an 1366px-wide screen.
@Caolán, do you think it makes sense to reduce the dialog a bit ?
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #2) > @Caolán, do you think it makes sense to reduce the dialog a bit ? Guys, why don't you let the users make it as narrow as they want? IMHO the minimum width should be set to something like 50 pixels, so that it can never be made completely disappear, because that would look confusing, but otherwise, what's the reason for putting a higher limit on its minimum width?
@Eltomito, the dialog can be resized and be narrower, that is not part of the discussion. The question is whether it should be narrower by default or not
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #4) > @Eltomito, the dialog can be resized and be narrower, that is not part of > the discussion. The question is whether it should be narrower by default or > not No, the actual problem I'm reporting is that the dialog cannot be resized to anything narrower than what you can see in the attached screenshot. Maybe this differs on different systems and backends but at least on my system (Ubuntu + gtk2 - see above), its minimum width is this wide.
Created attachment 154512 [details] I can't reproduce it How it looks for me in Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 186d36a7036462ae641b35004b4ffba3eeeca46f CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
Hello Eltomito, What happens if you execute 'SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen soffice' from command line? is the dialog smaller ?
Hi! Thank you for spending your time on this! No, the gen backend didn't help BUT I found out that when I open another Writer window via File->New Document, which opens with the Manage Changes subwindow automatically open, then just clicking back and forth between the two writer windows magically shrinks the Manage Changes Window to a nice smaller size and makes it freely resizable down to that new width. (See attachment.) It works exactly the same way with the gtk2 backend ( SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk libreoffice6.3 ) and the gen backend. When I tried with the gtk3 backend, the resize problem didn't exist in the first place (yippeee!). Maybe it has to do with the window manager (xfwm4) which is a part of Xubuntu which I'm using. Let's see if I can try with a different window manager...
Created attachment 154516 [details] After opening another Writer window and switching back and forth between the two, the Manage Changes window magically shrinks!
I think the initial size is the size considering the original text in the buttons of "Reject/Clear formatting" and "Reject All/Clear formatting" which are super long strings for buttons, the text gets changed later, but after the initial size is taken
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/f35825e85f59e0fd155c68d63260169cd3cb38c9 Resolves: tdf#127218 allow changes dialog to shrink when button text changes It will be available in 6.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
that seems to be the problem, fixed in master, backport to 6-3 in gerrit
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-3": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/a1e102bc4f0f36f19b76c34971470faa45e3aaf8 Resolves: tdf#127218 allow changes dialog to shrink when button text changes It will be available in 6.3.3. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
I've just tried the daily build and it fixes the problem for me. Great job! Thank you!
(In reply to Eltomito from comment #14) > I've just tried the daily build and it fixes the problem for me. > Great job! Thank you! Setting to VERIFIED then. Thanks for reporting and checking the issue. @Caolán, thank for fixing it!