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Bug 160522

Summary: palette open drawer shouldn't show white space under
Product: [Tools] GEF Reporter: Thom Haynes <haynest>
Component: GEF-Legacy GEF (MVC)Assignee: Anthony Hunter <ahunter.eclipse>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: ahunter.eclipse
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 3.5.0 (Galileo) M5   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Thom Haynes CLA 2006-10-11 13:32:58 EDT 
When a drawer in palette is open, the drawers under it should be visible right under the last item in the open drawer, instead there is often a lot of blank space in between. While Microsoft may do it this way, doesn't make it right. I think we should be using the "tree-open" model, that is, each open category takes only as much space as it needs.

Someone said with this approach you can't know if the last drawer is open but empty. I say: how often is that a problem? Very little chance of that, not an issue.
Comment 1 Randy Hudson CLA 2006-10-11 13:45:45 EDT 
Anthony, if you are interested in a historical explanation of the current behavior, I'm sure Pratik could provide some background info. The behavior being requested is how the palette originally worked. People complained, and it was "fixed".
Comment 2 Anthony Hunter CLA 2009-01-30 10:42:30 EST 
It appears that this problem no longer occurs. I suspect this was fixed with Bug 133385