Set minimum Sizes for windows

[notreallyhere]

you can resize files window to make it really small. i think there should be minimum allowed size for files window. we should not allow user to be able to do this. see attachment

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

I am not in favour of restricting user choice unnecessarily, if nothing permanently bad happens.

[Fabian Thoma (fabianthoma)]

Looks like this has actually gotten worse, so now I can make it so small that I can't even see all of the widgets, same goes for pantheon-terminal, which really should not be the case.
Switchboard in contrast has a sane minimum size, where everything is still visible, see the attached screenshot

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I have to agree with Fabian. It doesn't make sense to allow the window to get so small that it causes weird glitches like that or that the app isn't even usable

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

Any suggestions as to a what a suitable minimum size would be? What is 'usable' depends on e.g. how long a path name is in the location bar and how many bookmarks you have. I agree there should not be any visual glitches , though. I could not get the current trunk (r1962) to reproduce those in the attached image or become as small, but it was possible to get the full-screen button to overlap the pathbar.

[Fernando Alvarenga (ferbarcelona10)]

I found the following block in Terminal,

            int minimum_width = t.calculate_width (80) / 2;
            int minimum_height = t.calculate_height (24) / 2;
            set_size_request (minimum_width, minimum_height);
            app.minimum_width = minimum_width;
            app.minimum_height = minimum_height;

Does anybody know what the purpose of this is? This is already setting a size request, therefore it is stopping me from solving the issue.