How can I resize the side panes?

[Racachaquero]

Good day everybody

I'm trying to make the side-panes (results navigation pane and search pane) smaller, narrower, as my screen resolution is small, and they are taking up both summed nearly the half of it, leaving a small space for the main results frame.

I tried to do it selecting the border and resizing them, but there's a limit I can't go beyond, and they are still too wide for me. It doesn't matter how much I try to, they won't get narrower.

This is exactly how it looks like, at actual resolution: http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8636/screenov.png

I'm using version 296d6d5 compiled from git on Ubuntu 10.04.

Thank you for your help, it's very much appreciated.

[chulai]

Currently you can't. There is a minimum width hardcoded in the application. But if you have some programming knowledge it's quite easy to modify the UI forms to do this.

[Racachaquero]

Currently you can't. There is a minimum width hardcoded in the application. But if you have some programming knowledge it's quite easy to modify the UI forms to do this.

Would you give me a hand with this? which files do I have to edit? would you please tell me more or less how to do it?

Will you be adding this feature in a near future?

The thing is that I'll use this low resolution, small screen netbook for some years, and I'd like to get this solved because I use GD everyday.

A temporary but not comfortable workaround I've implemented at the moment is to place the unattached search pane at the top, above all the other options and hiding a little of the article. And I removed completely the results pane. In my opinion (and if this can be done modifying the source files before compiling, I beg you to also tell me how) the results pane should only show the icons for the dictionaries. Showing the full name should be optional, as it takes a lot of useful space. This is how it looks like: http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/9839/pantallazo1d.png

So I'll be waiting for your advices guys. Thank you very much in advance for your help.

[chulai]

Ok, I assume you know how to get source code from a Git repository and have previous experience building a program from source.

1) Install Git core package.

2) Create a goldendict folder somewhere.

2) Open a terminal window and on that folder get the source code with:

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$ git clone https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict

3) Install all dependency packages. They are all listed here: http://goldendict.org/buildfromgit.php

In addition to those you have to install libbz2-dev.

4) Modify mainwindow.ui file:

a) Locate line:

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<widget class="QDockWidget" name="searchPane">

b) Add the following just below:

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<property name="sizePolicy">
    <sizepolicy hsizetype="Preferred" vsizetype="Preferred">
     <horstretch>0</horstretch>
     <verstretch>0</verstretch>
    </sizepolicy>
   </property>
   <property name="minimumSize">
    <size>
     <width>0</width>
     <height>123</height>
    </size>
   </property>

c) Locate line:

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<widget class="QLineEdit" name="translateLine">

d) Modify width from

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<width>200</width>

to

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<width>0</width>

e) Locate line:

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<widget class="QDockWidget" name="dictsPane">

f) Add the following just below:

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<property name="sizePolicy">
    <sizepolicy hsizetype="Preferred" vsizetype="Preferred">
     <horstretch>0</horstretch>
     <verstretch>0</verstretch>
    </sizepolicy>
   </property>
   <property name="minimumSize">
    <size>
     <width>0</width>
     <height>97</height>
    </size>
   </property>

Another option is to modify this form with the Qt Creator visual tool.

5) Compile:

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$ qmake && make

6) Run from the build directory:

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$ ./goldendict

You should be able to stretch the frames even more.

Note that the "Found in Dictionaries:" label, the "Look up in:" drop-down and text entry fields they all prevent the frames from stretching to 0px width.

Hope that helps,

Chulai