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Re: [trinity-devel] Web site issues

From: "E. Liddell" <ejlddll@...>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:36:11 -0400
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:58:44 -0500
"Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...> wrote:

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> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 09:39 (-0500), Timothy Pearson wrote:
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> >>> On Thursday 16 of October 2014 15:46:33 Michele Calgaro wrote:
> >>>> Tim,
> >>>> I would like to push the attached patch to the tde-packaging repo. It
> >>>> adds debug symbols to TDevelop.
> >>>> At the same time I could also push some TDevelop documentation updates
> >>>> that I have already made.
> >>>> Can I go ahead?
> >
> >>>> Cheers
> >>>> Michele
> >
> >>> For me it looks good - I have no objections.
> >
> >>> By the way, in the patch is accidentally see a not-existing home
> >>> http://www.tdevelop.org/ Maybe we can fix this too.
> >
> >>> --
> >>> Slávek
> >
> >> Fix the link, then push.
> >
> > Sorry I didn't get this comment/question in earlier...
> >
> > I'm one of those apparently-rare people who don't automatically make
> > my browser the full width of the screen.  As of 1 minute ago (and
> > earlier today) the https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ page has such a
> > width that even when my browser window is wide enough to show all the
> > content, the horizontal scroll bar is still there.  Scrolling to the
> > right of the page just rewards me with white space.
> >
> > Are other people seeing this?  I see it even when my browser (firefox)
> > is 1012 pixels wide.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >                                 Jim
> 
> Yes, I see it.  There's still a lot of whitespace (blue space?) below the
> links on the left as well.
> 
> E. Liddell: I haven't dug into the css for this site yet; is this going to
> be a problem for if people are using fonts with different pixel heights?

I already found the element causing the horizontal scrollbar; as for the
other, maybe (I've already found one browser/font combination where
I can cover the space left at the bottom of the current design with my
little finger).  Redefining the element heights in terms of em instead of
ex may help.  I'll experiment after I finish work.

E. Liddell