I use Zope on both Mac and Win2K in the course of a day. In recent weeks, I have moved my Mac environment to OS X. I have noticed a couple of cosmetic issues that, while really cosmetic, do have an impact on the usability of the ZMI for me. First, on both Windows and Mac, the "Narrower" button seems to have zero effect. I click it many, many times because I think perhaps the incremental change built in is small. It never moves. Not a pixel. This is a problem because for some reason the width at which it is seton my Win2K box is such that I get horizontal scrolling in object editors that extend the width of the available area. This makes editing a real pain. On my Mac, for reasons having, I'm sure, to do with arcania like aspect ratios, I don't get horizontal scrolling but I still cannot make the window narrower. Second, on OS X, the default font used in the object editors is not well suited to the display parameters. All text entered into text objects is a bit hard to read and, when selected, is broken and thin. I have reset my system to turn off anti-aliasing below 12 points, to no effect. Anyone have any ideas how, e.g., I might fix these problems myself? Runniing Zope 2.3.3 on Linux.
On Friday 03 May 2002 12:25 pm, Dan Shafer allegedly wrote:
I use Zope on both Mac and Win2K in the course of a day. In recent weeks, I have moved my Mac environment to OS X. I have noticed a couple of cosmetic issues that, while really cosmetic, do have an impact on the usability of the ZMI for me.
First, on both Windows and Mac, the "Narrower" button seems to have zero effect. I click it many, many times because I think perhaps the incremental change built in is small. It never moves. Not a pixel. This is a problem because for some reason the width at which it is seton my Win2K box is such that I get horizontal scrolling in object editors that extend the width of the available area. This makes editing a real pain. On my Mac, for reasons having, I'm sure, to do with arcania like aspect ratios, I don't get horizontal scrolling but I still cannot make the window narrower.
This will be fixed in Zope 2.6. The current CVS contains the fix. -Casey
Fantastic! Glad to hear it's a bug and not a feature I don't understand! ;-) At 01:09 PM 5/3/2002 -0400, Casey Duncan wrote:
On Friday 03 May 2002 12:25 pm, Dan Shafer allegedly wrote:
I use Zope on both Mac and Win2K in the course of a day. In recent weeks, I have moved my Mac environment to OS X. I have noticed a couple of cosmetic issues that, while really cosmetic, do have an impact on the usability of the ZMI for me.
First, on both Windows and Mac, the "Narrower" button seems to have zero effect. I click it many, many times because I think perhaps the incremental change built in is small. It never moves. Not a pixel. This is a problem because for some reason the width at which it is seton my Win2K box is such that I get horizontal scrolling in object editors that extend the width of the available area. This makes editing a real pain. On my Mac, for reasons having, I'm sure, to do with arcania like aspect ratios, I don't get horizontal scrolling but I still cannot make the window narrower.
This will be fixed in Zope 2.6. The current CVS contains the fix.
-Casey
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