Bug 236105

Summary: poor GUI - -
Product: [Applications] kaddressbook Reporter: Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli <tiposchi>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: karaluh, krammer, tokoe
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
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OS: Linux   
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Description Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 2010-05-03 02:10:34 UTC 
Version:           4.4.3 (using 4.4.3 (KDE 4.4.3), Debian packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.32.12-proserpina

I only have one resource, and to let me know this very important information kaddressbook wastes ⅓ of my screen.

The old small box was way better IMHO.
Comment 1 Tobias Koenig 2010-05-03 09:14:35 UTC 
Hej,

if you don't need the left pane, just collaps it by dragging the right
border of the pane to the left side. Then this pane won't 'waste' any
space for you...

Ciao,
Tobias
Comment 2 Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 2010-05-03 09:36:27 UTC 
But if i want it i can't have it small, because it's vertical.
Comment 3 Tobias Koenig 2010-05-03 09:46:09 UTC 
Hej,

there is no point in having the pane displayed if you have only
on address book configured, so no space is wasted.
If you want to have more address books, it makes sense to show the
pane, because then you can switch between the address books.

So as the maintainer and main developer of this application I have
decided that this pane will stay there as it is, and reopening this
bug report again won't change anything...

Ciao,
Tobias
Comment 4 Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 2010-05-03 10:05:18 UTC 
You're refusing to see my point that _TWO_ addressbooks will force the user to waste most of the ⅓ of the screen for that list, when having it the old way would be a better usage of that space.

Won't reopen this again.
Comment 5 Tobias Koenig 2010-05-03 15:24:19 UTC 
Hej,

Also for two address books this is not really a wast of space, the alternative
would be to put it below the middle pane where it would waste vertically space instead
of horizontal, so I see no point in moving stuff around...

Ciao,
Tobias
Comment 6 Kevin Krammer 2010-05-03 17:46:51 UTC 
Maybe we could change this bugreport to be a wish for having some of the different panes in dockers of some sort, i.e. movable.

By default it could be all three in one "row" but allow users to e.g. move the collection tree above or below the contact list.
Comment 7 karaluh 2010-11-10 14:12:24 UTC 
How about treeview?