Comment 0 for bug 1510831

The minimal size (width, height) of the Document Properties dialog has grown with each of the past releases, and current trunk features a rather huge dialog window, which - for the 'Page' options - expands beyond screen height e.g. on a 13-inch laptop monitor, even with a moderately small font size for Gtk+.

Attached are screenshots of the dialog in
- Inkscape 0.47 (Clearlooks-based theme),
- Inkscape 0.48 (Adwaita GTK2),
- Inkscape 0.91 (Adwaita GTK2) and
- current trunk (0.91+devel, Adwaita GTK2)
for comparison.

The minimal width seems to have increased due to
1) additional tabs (metadata, license)
2) new options for the viewBox scale
   (the text at the end: "User units per $(display_units)")

The minimal height is increased due to
1) additional viewBox options
2) viewBox scale help text displayed in-line
   (as opposed to a tooltip)

Unused empty space in the other tabs has increased a lot.

Request:
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Compacter layout so that all options are accessible even on smaller screens, and unused empty space in all pages is minimized.

Help for translators to keep the dialog at a moderate size: A dialog designed with a portrait proportion in mind should not be wider than half the screen width, nor expand beyond the screen height. If this can't be guaranteed, maybe the dialog needs to be reorganized with a landscape orientation (with tabs on the left, using constraints for the length of the labels).

Note: For a future GTK3-based release, the dialog will likely require a different redesign due to the large padding of the tab labels enforced with the built-in default theme of GTK3 (Adwaita) - this increases the dialog's minimal width even further, along with rather disproportional spacing and/or expanding of the widgets within the individual pages of the notebook.