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Bug 382227

Summary: Quick access and perspective switcher waste space on small screens
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Christoph Hermann <christoph.hermann>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3 CC: Lars.Vogel
Version: 4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux-GTK   
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Description Flags
wasted space when perspective bar is on a new line
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the quick access field moves out of sight none

Description Christoph Hermann CLA 2012-06-11 07:24:21 EDT
Build Identifier: Version: Juno Release Build id: 20120322-1740

On small screens (in my case with a resolution of 1366x768 pixels) it looks like the quick access field and the perspective switcher waste space if they do not fit into one line with the toolbar. In my opinion, the main reason is that the perspective switcher and the quick access field look twice as high as the symbols in the toolbar.

I think the maximum width for the last two toolbar lines should be the window width minus the with of the quick access field an the perspective switcher.

Having many items in the perspective switcher causes the quick access field to be moved outside the window. 

Maybe a maximum number of items in the perspective switcher could reduce the occurence of that problem. Adding one item more than the maximum number of items pops out the oldest one.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reduce the window size until the perspective bar and the quick access field move to the next line
Comment 1 Christoph Hermann CLA 2012-06-11 07:29:11 EDT
Created attachment 217143 [details]
wasted space when perspective bar is on a new line
Comment 2 Christoph Hermann CLA 2012-06-11 07:29:42 EDT
Created attachment 217144 [details]
the quick access field moves out of sight
Comment 3 Lars Vogel CLA 2014-04-28 17:03:27 EDT
You can close both in Luna, marking as dup of Bug 431868

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 431868 ***