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Originally Posted by DoctorOhh
I may not understand your solution, but anything implemented that prevents me from viewing the entire text in my comments area I would be against.
If what you are proposing is an optional limitation then I don't care because I won't check that option.
For me comments are my last field on my list so they never get in the way.
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The proposal affects displaying information in the book list, not in book details, which is I think what you are referring to.
The problem mgaillard raises is a general one: what happens if a lot of information is displayed in one of the optional book list cells? Today CC will display all the info no matter how long it is, which can cause a single book list row (cover + info) to consume more than the space available on the screen. The specific problem being discussed is "comments" but the same thing could happen with tags (if there are 100s of them), extra author-like columns with lots of names, or single-value text columns that are long.
The proposal is to specify a maximum height in displayed lines for the optional cells. There would be three such max heights: top, middle (covering both left and right as they must be equal in height) and bottom. The maximum would be adjusted up if needed to be at least as large as the number of fields displayed in that cell. Not setting a maximum would leave behavior as it is today.