TanninOne
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6 years ago I'm not really sure what you're proposing, do you want more or less customizability? We can't provide a default size for dashlets so it looks good on a narrow and wide screen but if we allow users more customisability it's of course even more possible to produce an unappealing setup wasting space.
The dashlet will always work with a grid, otherwise it'd be almost impossible to properly align items, but options we could (and actually do) consider is a) allow users to change the number of columns, so on a wide screen you could have 4 columns instead of the current 3 to have it make better use of the available space. b) Allow users to configure the width and height (in columns/rows) of a dashlet.
prosaiccode
This first image shows the the built in minimum of the best and worst of two different panes (what I'll use to describe these elements to reduce confusion). Content is hidden, difficult to read, and has two scrollbars. It should never reach the point of needing two directional scrolls to reach the content you want. Especially when the active part of the buttons are on the far right of the graphic.. The first area shares functionality with the second. The third area adds more to the second. To put it politely, it's a cluster dump. The orange box in the scroll bar adds further confusion because I think it's to try and expand the scroll window area which I think would just break the entire pane with more scroll bars.
In contrast, the four buttons in the setup pane seem well padded and offer a clear indication as to what they are meant to do at all points.
This photo shows the same two panes at a 21:9 aspect ratio main window. The padding on the setup pane remained pretty close to the original but now I have all this empty space that feels heavy on the left.
Just to reference an outside source, the Steam store front is more uniform in it's element distribution and so is the Nexus website. Steam favors the left side a little at long resolutions but it's for that side menu, which is a feature already in Vortex.
The padding with the game however falls short again because the padding for center buttons due to the elements being aligned top and aligned bottom rather than just given a proper spacing/padding.
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mgrouse
The internal windows contained inside the space can be manipulated in a way that allows visually unappealing (and wasted space) setups, as seen in one of the photos. A suggestion would to have the frames have a uniform sizing to them taking advantage of different resolutions of photos or white space for spacing will work great here. A two item wide grid with limitations on how small an internal window can be to preserve readability. The photo was taken on a 21:9 resolution. I still think this is too wide (look at the fallout 4 game window content at the bottom). Thus I propose maximums and mimums be put in place.
When the content is lined up better, the white space on the side looks fine at this resolution. I would assume wider aspect ratios could allow for more content to go across however I would stay away form because moving our eyes across large distances is tedious and placing the content below would allow for the use of a scroll wheel, reducing the stress on eye muscles. The dashboard don't really have that much content in it anyways to even fill up the space.
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