Reduce / remove min width
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I often have my note editor at 1/4 width of the screen, which comes to 480 pixels at the crappy 1080p monitors I use at work. The NvUltra window now has a minimum width of 550 pixels. Is there any reason this is so? My preference would be to have it removed or reduced.
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The minimum width tries to help accomplish a couple of things, but it is not working perfectly at this point.
1. There is a functional limit as to how wide the notes list, editor, and preview need to be in order to be useful. One can quibble over exactly what that number is, but we can all agree, for example, that 5 px is not wide enough for any of them.
2. Toggling certain elements on/off (e.g. notes list and preview) *should* change the number of visible GUI elements in the window *without* changing the size of the window. For example, toggling the preview on/off should adjust the width of the editor to compensate. It should not make the window bigger. Under some circumstances, this is not happening, and I'm trying to figure out why.
In order to make those things true, the minimum window width is equal to the sum of the minimum widths of the three components. Currently this is 150 for notes list + 200 for editor + 200 for preview == 550 minimum for the window. I personally think that is an unusably small window with all three components visible, but can be useful if *just* the editor is visible. For me, it's tolerable if I only toggle the notes list *OR* the preview on for short periods of time.
We'll look at whether a change in the dimensions or functionality makes sense.
(Again -- currently the window *does* get wider under some circumstances when toggling the preview if it starts near the minimum width. Ideally that will not be the case.)
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> Toggling certain elements on/off (e.g. notes list and preview) *should* change the number of visible GUI elements in the window *without* changing the size of the window.
I totally get the line of reasoning, but 95%+ of my needs involve quickly jotting down notes inspired by things that go on in other windows. As such, I'd prefer my note-taking app to be narrow. I almost never use the preview window, and would prefer the note list to be on top of my editor window (like the horizontal layout option in nvalt).
I can imagine that for people who almost never use the preview window, it's not that important that the window does not change size when enabling it. I don't know if that's a small minority of the users, or a big part, but maybe it's something you'd like to consider.
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We've tweaked the minimum sizes of the various components to allow narrower windows in the next version.
Thanks for the feedback!
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Great, I can even do 420 pixels wide on my laptop now. Very happy with this!
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Glad it's working well for you!
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