Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: yelp
Ubuntu 9.10, GNOME (2.28?)
The following is not a technical bug, but a feature whose design is
inappropriate. The issue is, thus, userfriendliness.
In the GNOME panel, symbols are sized automatically by an algorithm that
looks whether the shortest dimension X of the panel is width or height,
accordingly fixes the width or the height of each symbol to the same
value as X and finally calculates the other dimension Y of each symbol
in proportion to X. The extension Y of each synbol then, of course,
determines how many symbols fit on the panel.
This has the following consequence: Assume the panel is vertically
arranged. Then the wider I size the panel, the higher become the
symbols. The consequence is, of course, that the wider I size the panel,
the fewer symbols fit on it. This is counterproductive. The solution
seems to be: Allow the user to fix an upper value for symbol size
(either X or Y, if the proportion calculus is to be maintained). Or else
fix such an upper value yourself.
** Affects: yelp (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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size of symbols on GNOME panel inappropriate
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/504741
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