Changing Panel Width -Doze

[Kiwigeoff]

Helping a Windows user to set up and I can't find how to change the panel widths, dragging doesn't seem to work i.e. the panels only go so far/small and no further and even then they are too big.

 

[Brad Snyder]

Geoff, attached is a sample of the smallest I can make my side panels on WinXP. Note this is extremely ugly, but you can get a quick feel for the proportions of the panels to the whole. Source screen rez is 128'*1'24, or a 5:4 aspect. I am *not* using Jeffrey F's font twiddler (remember the translation string hack?) to de/in-crease panel real estate. This is a stock install of 1.3.1. Display is 'Full' mode, no menus or OS widgets displayed.

 

[Kiwigeoff]

Thanks Brad, looks like Jeffreys hack must be the answer. I can get the panels to go larger, just not smaller and they take up too much space. Might be a feature request I think !:shock:

 

[RipIt]

Geoff, you don't mention anything about your PC friends monitor resolution.

I run Lightroom on Mac and PC. The Apple cinema display is 168'px wide and the panels largest size brings it to just under the "y" of Library.
Its smallest size which makes them about 37' and 245 pixels respectively.

On my PC (which is a laptop) the resolution is 1'24px. The panels are 388 and 25' respectively. Not counting any borders or scroll areas.

Now in my opinion the PC with its resolution so low display panels that are way too big at their smallest size.

It would seem to me that the limitation on the panels size is a pixel amount rather than a percentage amount of working area so the larger the display are the smaller they will appear.

So the question remains. What is the resolution of your friends monitor. If it cannot be increased beyond 12'' then he'll want to get used to the hide shortcuts.

 

[Kiwigeoff]

Geoff, you don't mention anything about your PC friends monitor resolution.

I run Lightroom on Mac and PC. The Apple cinema display is 168'px wide and the panels largest size brings it to just under the "y" of Library.
Its smallest size which makes them about 37' and 245 pixels respectively.

On my PC (which is a laptop) the resolution is 1'24px. The panels are 388 and 25' respectively. Not counting any borders or scroll areas.

Now in my opinion the PC with its resolution so low display panels that are way too big at their smallest size.

It would seem to me that the limitation on the panels size is a pixel amount rather than a percentage amount of working area so the larger the display are the smaller they will appear.

So the question remains. What is the resolution of your friends monitor. If it cannot be increased beyond 12'' then he'll want to get used to the hide shortcuts.

Thanks David, sounds like he needs a bigger screen. I'm not there now but will check. Have put in a feature request, the ratio is good thinking!!