On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 03:34:55PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Arnd" == Arnd Hanses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Arnd> On Thu, 19 May 2135 21:33:55 +0200, Jochen Kuepper wrote:
>
> >> Two suggestions regarding the bibtex-entry-key-combobox (hey, I am
> >> German, we are used to use words two lines long, or so):
> >>
> >> - make it bigger Well, it would make live much easier to show
> >> approx 10 entries or so, and also make it wide enough to show the
> >> full keys - or probably just 1.5 times as wide as it is right now.
> >> Sorry, I won t get into XForms any more, but probably it's quite
> >> easy for one of you guys.
>
> Arnd> Yes, please make the forms bigger! The German po-file is great,
> Arnd> but: It's German. This means, words normally are twice as long
> Arnd> long as in other more decent languages (except,
> Arnd> e. g. gaelic). So you cannot read many of the form entries in
> Arnd> German and resizing with the window manager often does not work
> Arnd> either. A special german form template would mean too much work,
> Arnd> wouldn't it?
>
> Making the forms bigger would create problems for systems with low
> resolution... We can't please everybody. The real solution would be to
> have a layout manager for xforms popups (or rather a real toolkit).
Right, but the citation form specifically is quite small, so it shouldn't be
a problem to make it, say, the same size as the reference window.
-Amir
