Re: Feature request: Column Sizes

[Quinn Taylor]

Sorry, I hope it doesn't seem I'm beating the same drum, but I haven't yet heard a compelling case for remembering column *sizes*. I can agree with remembering (1) which columns are visible and (2) the order of the columns (3) for each bookmark. However, as I mentioned in my last email, is there ever a time when you *don't* want the Name column to occupy as much space as possible? I find that regardless of the number or order of columns, I always expand the Name column and shrink most everything else.

- Quinn


On Feb 20, 2009, at 4:09 PM, kiddailey wrote:

Perhaps I'm playing devil's advocate, but think of this from a developer standpoint as well. Do you really need the overhead of tracking and storing each column size? Why devote the logic and storage space to handling custom sizes? I personally would be much happier if Versions just did The Right Thing and showed me the most it could with the columns I've selected.

*DEFINITELY* agree.

And my gut says that option 2 is the best approach.  Perhaps allow it
to be stored (along with which columns are on/off) on a per-working
copy/repository, because I can definitely see a need where I might
want to have it different for two different projects.  For example, if
I'm the only user on a project, I don't need to see the name column,
but I would if there were multiple users.

This, in addition to not remembering window position, window size, and
folder open/close states are my biggest pet peeves with Versions.  I
waste way too much time getting everything back into the last usable
state.

On Feb 19, 7:58 am, Peter <difos...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey,


the Browse view. The Base, Last, Date and Author columns are bigger

the Name column so I can see filenames instead of '...'.

Now for the feature request, I see two possibilities:
1) Intelligent automatic column sizing - Try to make the contents fit
as well as possible within the window size automatically

to go about it as well

If this should already work like this but it doesn't for me for some
reason then please consider this a bug report :)

Regards,

Peter

Every time I start Versions I proceed to change the column sizes under then they need be and the Name column is too small. I like to maximize 2) Remember a user's column sizes - They will likely work with similar content so being able to tune the sizes as desired would be a nice way

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