Closed bertob closed 4 months ago
Hey @bertob , if we can find a good combination of parameters, sure!
I quickly tried that before and ended up with something like this:
To which I (quickly, as well) concluded that:
At some point having the window displaying the sidebar only it's kind of unavoidable, I wonder what window size you think it wouldn't be considered awkward.
Another thing didn't look good was the default sidebar minimum width
That is, considering that Flatseal displays often long app names and long app ids (compared to Settings).
Any suggestions? :)
I don't think ellipsizing the name or ID is necessarily a problem here. All of this information is available on the detail view as well anyway, finding the app you're looking for should never be a problem I think.
As for the exact values, I'd try the ones Nautilus or Settings use as a start and iterate from there.
Libadwaita 1.4 allows for dynamic sidebar widths, so you can shrink windows to relatively small sizes without folding, avoiding awkward cases like this:
Settings for comparison, using a dynamic sidebar width: