List of draggable block types too tall in view editor

[Richard Mansfield]

The list of blocktypes to be dragged into a view takes up too much vertical space when it spills over into two rows.

Evonne has asked for the display to be limited to one row only, scrolling horizontally when it gets too wide. We can avoid scrolling 99% of the time when javascript is on, by hiding the blocktype description and showing it below the panel when hovering over the blocktype. The blocktypes take up much less horizontal space when the description is hidden.

[François Marier (fmarier)]

I suspect that installing any third-party plugins will spill things onto a second row though. Many contrib plugins end up in the General tab of the view editor.

[Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield)]

Yeah, I tend to think a second row is inevitable too. The other thing she suggested to make them a bit thinner was removing the titles from below the icons, but I don't think that's a good idea, it's not obvious enough what the icons do (yet).

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Another idea would be to have left/right arrows and have a sliding row of icons when there are more than the width of the tab.

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/506
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/a3bdc36687d97255eb17ca39ef06b46bc4ec05b0
Submitter: Hugh Davenport (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit a3bdc36687d97255eb17ca39ef06b46bc4ec05b0
Author: Evonne Cheung <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 22 11:48:39 2011 +1200

    Future-proofing base themes

    Adds new wrapper divs to the main column and tabs for more flexibility
    in child themes.
    Styling of new blocktype panel (see bug #808601)
    Many other miscellaneous fixes, including to the dropdown menus

    Signed-off-by: Richard Mansfield <email address hidden>

    Change-Id: Ie1de1861d967bb6e954bdb41c792c268245f6bb8
    Author: Evonne Cheung <email address hidden>

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/505
Committed: http://gitorious.org/mahara/mahara/commit/7224dc446741a2e8b2d55f8a350aad37516e5d5a
Submitter: Hugh Davenport (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 7224dc446741a2e8b2d55f8a350aad37516e5d5a
Author: Richard Mansfield <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 22 11:47:42 2011 +1200

    Reduce height of blocktypes area in view editor (bug #808601)

    This change reduces the height of the blocktype panel in the view
    editor, so that it takes up less vertical space. When js is on, the
    blocktype titles & descriptions are hidden and only the icon is visible.
    Titles & descriptions are displayed below the panel on hover.

    Change-Id: I4c95a4b71c12d15d870b6fc597553dfaa5069380
    Signed-off-by: Richard Mansfield <email address hidden>

[Melissa Draper (melissa)]

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