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• • June 13, 2012 at 4:45 pm #62415
    AaronA

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    It's funny; I just noticed the wasted screen real estate on the Styles panels. Look at the hyper-generous indent given to each style in the Object Styles, Table and Cell Styles, Paragraph and Character Styles. It's like 5 ems wide, which makes no sense (0 would be plenty!) and requires more screen space used. I have the bulk of my panels on my 2nd (left) monitor, and that wasted space means more mousing over to the left to apply some styles.

    Anyone else given this any thought?

  • June 14, 2012 at 12:57 am #62418
    Hopsa Rijnen

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    See the icon for folders in those panes? Try one, the wasted space becomes clear…

    It's like someone may have thought about it whilst writing the software… ;-)

  • June 14, 2012 at 11:43 am #62420
    AaronA

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    OK… I need to change the posting title to “Perceived wasted screen space with panels: shall I rant and then come off looking like an idiot?” :)

    Good point, Hopsa. As I posted this I was looking at a doc with no style groups, thus no icons occupying that 'wasted space'.

    However, it would be cool that as long as no groups exist, the indent disappears to allow more of the style name to be visible…

  • June 18, 2012 at 1:26 am #62450
    Hopsa Rijnen

    Member

    True, true, at home i have a little screen comparing to my work-mac, at home that enforces me to work with the smallest possible pane set-up. But that's the way it goes isn't it? Big screens can display every pane open and in full glory, there's allmost no need to collapse them. Good thing that you can do that nowadays, back in 'thy old days' panes we're those massive things that always floated in our path of vision…

    Maybe a good reason to get that new turing-device we are allways after!!

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