[Ipe-discuss] Two questions on Version 25

[Jan Hlavacek]

Kaushik Ghose <kghose at umd.edu> 12/1/2005 11:42 AM wrote:
> I'm running Pre25 on WinXP

I use both.

> Jan Hlavacek wrote:
>> First: If you close the "Properties" and "Layers" panels, is there any way
>> of getting them back?
>> 
> Same problem.
> 
>> Second: On Linux (namely Debian stable) , with qt 4.0.1, in file selection
>> dialog when opening new file, all file-names are truncated to just first few
>> letters followed by dots.  It seems to be done in some sort of proportional
>> way, so longer filenames will have more letters displayed, while short file
>> names will have just their first letter displayed, which is very annoying as
>> it makes it almost impossible to find any files.   You can work around it by
>> switching to detailed view and adjusting the width of the filename column,
>> but IPE will not remember that, so you have to do that every time you want
>> to open a file. 
>>
> Not on windows binary. Win binary is compiled with qt4.0.0

No, on Windows the open file dialog box looks different from the one on linux.
I think qt may actually be using the native dialog for that, or at least tries
to match its look.

>> Otherwise the version rules! Thanks!
>> 
> Ottfried, we complain because we care :)
> 
> Also, I realize such things should go in bugzilla, but it intimidates the
> hell out of me :( as anything with -zilla after the name should ;)

I didn't know if this was an IPE bug, a qt bug, a Debian bug or just some
setting that is hidden in some 10 years old configuration file sitting
somewhere on my hard disk.  I wanted to know if anybody else is seeing this
too. If it turns out to be a bug, I will be happy to submit it into bugzilla. 



-- 
Jan Hlavacek, instructor
Department of Mathematics
Saginaw Valley State University
989-964-2004