Sidebar size.

[eslavko]

Hello....
I wish to switch from eagle eda to something else. Just installed horizon-eda and got big issue. I do have monitor in portrait mode as mostly i do programming and is better to have portrait instead landscape to see more code. Now the sidebar in left is way to wide so the working area is small. I cant find solution to narrow it or hide. Some idea how to fix that (rotating monitor to Landscape is out of question).

[carrotIndustries]

now the sidebar in left is way to wide so the working area is small

Have a screenshot of how that looks like?

I cant find solution to narrow it or hide.

There's the 'distraction free mode' (Alt-D) that hides the bars on the left and right.

[eslavko]

sadly Alt D doesnt do anything. version 2.7.1 Mirage on linux ubuntu 24.04

[eslavko]

...actually Alt D works, but the keyboard shortcut wasn't set by default. When I add that in preferences-keys-misc-Toggle distraction free mode then alt D does its job. But still there is issue with window size. If i have maximized window on one screen and then click the component the panel on right side is opened and window is resized with width bigger than screen is so they expand to other monitor. Seems that there is some minimum screen width which is bigger than my monitor. In the image there are all 3 windows with minimal allowable sizes. I do have two monitors (24" 1920 x 1200) in portrait mode as is visible on that photo.

[tkornack]

The right side panel doesn't seem to expand the window size in my experience.

[eslavko]

When right panel is opened the whole window expand to other monitor. If tha window is already wide enough (one monitor + 1/4 of next one) then window doesn't resize. You can probably test that. when there is no right panel make whole window under 1200 pixels wide and then make action so right panel will show. Seems that minimum sizes are hardcoded.

[carrotIndustries]

The least bad way I could come up with that would fix this is adding an option (sigh) to hide the coordinate readout in the status bar. That way, we can get the editor minimum window width down to to less than 1000px if both sidebars are there.

Would that work for you?

[eslavko]

Well I think that there are even better way. If status bar is culpruit why window can't shrink there seems to be solution already used. This is status bar where width is big:

and there is status bar where window width is at minimum:

So there is clearly shown that item "View & Selection" shrinks when there is not enough space. I think that if all items in status bar shrinks if there is no enough space will be best. The other option can be as you propose to have some kind of selection what to show in status bar. Some items take a lot of space but seems unecessary (or maybe not as i still just looking how stuf work and didnt make any project yet.) ...

[carrotIndustries]

There's some rather generous padding between the individual items for good visual separation and some of the labels have a fixed width so that things stay in place if the text changes. These can't ellipsize like the view&selection menu does.

I tried making the coordinate label ellipsizeable, but then it ellipsizes before the view&selection label does which is not what I want.

So adding an option to hide the coordinate readout is a low-effort solution that keep the layout of the status bar stable.