Miller columns cannot be resized

[Arturo Torres Sánchez]

Although the separation between columns suggests that they can be resized, when trying to drag it, nothing occurs.

I'm using Files 0.1 rev 866 (from elementary's daily PPA), and Ubuntu 12.04

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

We probably want them to be resize-able. But if we can't do it (I can imagine there might be technical limitations) we might want to figure out how to not show a handle.

Can this widget have an insensitive state?

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Making columns resizable and making the pane separators thinner are both trivial fixes.
The "sidebar-pane-separator" class could be used here as well.

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

From an equivalent bug report from Marlin:

"marlin is using nested GtkPaneds for its columns view. When you move the separator one child expand while the other shrink.
In a context of nested paned objects, some child just can't be resized because no space is available for it. This introduce some undesired behaviors.
Due to this behavior and the limitations of gtk (GtkPaned), it's impossible to resize columns other than the firsts ones.
Which is why the columns are not resizeable." - ammonkey

[Kurt Smolderen (kurt.smolderen)]

Is Files using the same implementation or has the Millerview turned into a granite widget in the mean time... Although I do understand the technical limitations, from a user point of view this is a pretty nasty limitation...

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

Attached is a patch to make the Miller columns re-sizeable.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Hey Jeremy, it would be easier to see your patches and get them reviewed faster if you used branch merge proposals.

You can find a quick start guide here: http://tiny.cc/dev-guide-draft

Contact me if you have any questions.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

Thanks for this advice Julián. Do I need to re-submit the patch in this
way or just bear it in mind for future submissions?

On 17 June 2013 01:36, Julián Unrrein <email address hidden> wrote:

> Or follow these instructions to produce a proper patch:
>
> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Working_with_Bazaar#Working_with_patch_files
> .
>
> A diff is very cumbersome to work with.
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1020789
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> Title:
> Miller columns cannot be resized
>
> Status in Files:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Although the separation between columns suggests that they can be
> resized, when trying to drag it, nothing occurs.
>
> I'm using Files 0.1 rev 866 (from elementary's daily PPA), and Ubuntu
> 12.04
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