Can't resize calibre 0.7.55

Diana495 · 04-15-2011, 10:59 PM

I just upgraded to calibre 0.7.55 on Mac OS X 10.5.8 and I am having trouble resizing calibre. When I grab the bottom right corner, I can move it up/down/right, but can't move it left. I haven't upgraded for a few weeks, so I don't know if this is a new problem, or if it is supposed to not be resizable.

Thank you for your help.

1611mac · 04-15-2011, 11:02 PM

as info, I upgraded today to that version on Mac on my window works fine. (I'm using wide layout setting)

kovidgoyal · 04-15-2011, 11:16 PM

IIRC you cannot resize it to be smaller than the minimum width needed to display the icons in the toolbar on the top. You can go to preferences->look & feel and decrease teh size of the icons/turn them off. Or you can go to Preferences->toolbars and remove some of the icons you dont regularly use.

DoctorOhh · 04-15-2011, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diana495

I just upgraded to calibre 0.7.55 on Mac OS X 10.5.8 and I am having trouble resizing calibre. When I grab the bottom right corner, I can move it up/down/right, but can't move it left. I haven't upgraded for a few weeks, so I don't know if this is a new problem, or if it is supposed to not be resizable.

Whether this by design or not this seems to happen when calibre is as narrow as it allows. On my Windows XP sp3 machine, calibre 0.7.55, Look and Feel set to wide I can't reduce calibre's width below 1145px.

Update: Ninja'd by One-eye Kovid

Diana495 · 04-15-2011, 11:46 PM

It seems the search bar/area determines the size of the window (which makes sense), I tried removing icons from the toolbar but that didn't do anything. Is there a way to remove icons from the search bar section?

Thank you everyone.

DoctorOhh · 04-15-2011, 11:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diana495

It seems the search bar/area determines the size of the window (which makes sense), I tried removing icons from the toolbar but that didn't do anything. Is there a way to remove icons from the search bar section?

It appears you are correct, the search line does seem to be the limiting factor.

HaoleKai · 04-16-2011, 02:55 AM

Everything got ginormous in 7.55. It's unusable.
It's not the icon size, it's the icon bar that's now about 2.5 x the height it used to be and the increased space between the icons.

I reverted to 7.54 and all is good again.

I'm on OS X 10.5.8
Macbook 13"
I've never had this issue before.

kovidgoyal · 04-16-2011, 09:18 AM

@HaoleKai: that's the "native" OS X look. You don't like it, you have several options:

1) Customize the toolbar in Preferences->Look & Feel
2) Hide the toolbar completely and use a secondary (child) toolbar and/or menubar via Preferences->Tollbars
3) Complain to Apple

And let me note in passing, that this change was made by user_none who uses OS X as his primary machine, so I am not going to override him on what the default look for calibre on OS X should be.

kovidgoyal · 04-16-2011, 09:23 AM

On resizing, why are you guys concluding it's the search bar? On my systems the search bar becomes pretty small. I am able to resize calibre to a min width of 877 pixels.

Do you have a search restricton/saved search/search that is very long? That may be preventing one of the boxes on the search bar from resizing, though I thought I had fixed that a while ago.

user_none · 04-16-2011, 10:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HaoleKai

It's not the icon size, it's the icon bar that's now about 2.5 x the height it used to be...

I'm not seeing this issue. The Mac style toolbar only adds 5 px of extra height on my machine. It does appear taller because the tool bar visually blends into to the title bar. However if you look at where the toolbar's bottom hits against the dock on the left it's only 5 px.

Quote:

Originally Posted by HaoleKai

and the increased space between the icons.

Looks the same to me. See the screenshots.

The only thing I can think for you to try is to click the hide toolbar button on the top right of the window. Then click it again to have it reappear. Maybe hiding and reshowing it will get it to size properly.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

On resizing, why are you guys concluding it's the search bar?

I'm seeing this issue and it does appear to be the search bar. I don't have a toolbar in my setup.

kovidgoyal · 04-16-2011, 10:47 AM

@user_none: What's the minimum width you can resize calibre to?

I guess we can remove the search preferences button now that we have a separate highlight toggle button.

user_none · 04-16-2011, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@user_none: What's the minimum width you can resize calibre to?

970 px.

Removing the go, clear, highlight, preferences buttons allow me to resize to 823 px.

kovidgoyal · 04-16-2011, 11:02 AM

Ok, I've removed the preferences button, which should get it back to what it was before 0.7.55. Apparently there seems to be a lot more whitespace in the OS X version, you may want to add some code to remove the whitespace on OS X.

chaley · 04-16-2011, 11:59 AM

@kovid: you can also remove the remove saved search button, now that this functionality is provided in the tag browser context menu and 'manage saved searches'.

Another thing we can do to help discoverability is put two buttons where 'manage user categories' is. Change the name of the existing button to 'User categories' and add a button next to it named 'saved searches'.

EDIT: removed screen capture. Did something else. See post #17

kovidgoyal · 04-16-2011, 12:29 PM

Sounds good, go ahead and do it, I'll merge.

04-16-2011, 11:59 AM	#14
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,733 Karma: 6690881 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	@kovid: you can also remove the remove saved search button, now that this functionality is provided in the tag browser context menu and 'manage saved searches'. Another thing we can do to help discoverability is put two buttons where 'manage user categories' is. Change the name of the existing button to 'User categories' and add a button next to it named 'saved searches'. EDIT: removed screen capture. Did something else. See post #17 Last edited by chaley; 04-16-2011 at 01:37 PM.

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04-15-2011, 10:59 PM	#1
Diana495 Connoisseur Posts: 80 Karma: 8320 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: Ipod Touch	Can't resize calibre 0.7.55 I just upgraded to calibre 0.7.55 on Mac OS X 10.5.8 and I am having trouble resizing calibre. When I grab the bottom right corner, I can move it up/down/right, but can't move it left. I haven't upgraded for a few weeks, so I don't know if this is a new problem, or if it is supposed to not be resizable. Thank you for your help.

04-15-2011, 11:02 PM	#2
1611mac eWanderer Posts: 523 Karma: 1441998 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: NC, USA Device: iMac,iPad3,iPhone5-Kindle Fire,Touch,PaperWhite	as info, I upgraded today to that version on Mac on my window works fine. (I'm using wide layout setting)

04-15-2011, 11:16 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	IIRC you cannot resize it to be smaller than the minimum width needed to display the icons in the toolbar on the top. You can go to preferences->look & feel and decrease teh size of the icons/turn them off. Or you can go to Preferences->toolbars and remove some of the icons you dont regularly use.

04-15-2011, 11:46 PM	#5
Diana495 Connoisseur Posts: 80 Karma: 8320 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: Ipod Touch	It seems the search bar/area determines the size of the window (which makes sense), I tried removing icons from the toolbar but that didn't do anything. Is there a way to remove icons from the search bar section? Thank you everyone.

04-16-2011, 02:55 AM	#7
HaoleKai Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 14 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kindle	Everything got ginormous in 7.55. It's unusable. It's not the icon size, it's the icon bar that's now about 2.5 x the height it used to be and the increased space between the icons. I reverted to 7.54 and all is good again. I'm on OS X 10.5.8 Macbook 13" I've never had this issue before.

04-16-2011, 09:18 AM	#8
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@HaoleKai: that's the "native" OS X look. You don't like it, you have several options: 1) Customize the toolbar in Preferences->Look & Feel 2) Hide the toolbar completely and use a secondary (child) toolbar and/or menubar via Preferences->Tollbars 3) Complain to Apple And let me note in passing, that this change was made by user_none who uses OS X as his primary machine, so I am not going to override him on what the default look for calibre on OS X should be.

04-16-2011, 09:23 AM	#9
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	On resizing, why are you guys concluding it's the search bar? On my systems the search bar becomes pretty small. I am able to resize calibre to a min width of 877 pixels. Do you have a search restricton/saved search/search that is very long? That may be preventing one of the boxes on the search bar from resizing, though I thought I had fixed that a while ago.

04-16-2011, 10:47 AM	#11
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@user_none: What's the minimum width you can resize calibre to? I guess we can remove the search preferences button now that we have a separate highlight toggle button.

04-16-2011, 11:02 AM	#13
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Ok, I've removed the preferences button, which should get it back to what it was before 0.7.55. Apparently there seems to be a lot more whitespace in the OS X version, you may want to add some code to remove the whitespace on OS X.

04-16-2011, 12:29 PM	#15
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Sounds good, go ahead and do it, I'll merge.