Shrink/grow based on plug size

[Bruno Cancelinha]

For each plug there is a height and a width of space needed , so at least when people make their plugs, they can specify how much space (height and width) they want/need, and the window can adjust itself when each plug is clicked on, and when you click to go back to switchboard they automatically resize so it can go back to his normal size!

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

Might be an interesting idea. Implementation could be a bit hacky, and it wouldn't look very good without animations.

But an interesting idea nonetheless :)

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Bugs with status "Opinion" don't show up in the bug list; this status indicates that the developer is not interested in fixing the bug. Did you mean this?

GNOME Control Center has that, and it looks much better than Switchboard because of that. I think it's a must have.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

What "Opinion" means appears to vary from person to person. To me it means "Needs discussion". If the developer were not interested, he would have closed it, I'd think.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Christian: "Opinion: there is a difference of opinion about the bug and everyone is free to continue the discussion, however, the project maintainers consider the issue closed. " https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/Statuses

So I think the equivalent for "Needs discussion" is "Incomplete"

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

It could be worth looking into this code: http://youtu.be/nSWn8hOvCbk

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Whoops, that was a link to a video demonstration (which also has a link to the code), but here's a direct link to the code: https://github.com/chergert/gtk-window-resize

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

Thanks Christian and Sergey for commenting on the Opinion status -- I did intend for it to be "needs discussion".

I'm not opposed to the idea at all, but I don't know of a solid implementation that we could use. The code linked above is slightly visually glitchy on my machine -- I just compiled it.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

On second thought, this is basically a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/switchboard/+bug/842256.

I'm marking this as "Won't fix", rather than as a duplicate, in the event that grow/shrinking is really the only animation we want.