Last modified: 2014-08-20 17:51:45 UTC
Created attachment 16160 [details] Example of badly used vertical space Niklas hated the scrollbars in the small text areas, while migrating a https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:LocalSettings.php translation. In my case, the problem is rather that so much vertical space is wasted and I have to scroll the page a lot in order to cut and paste text from one textarea to another. Some ideas for improvement that I throw for consideration: a) adapt the height to the space required by the source text, keep it constant for the corresponding text area on the right side; b) allow to move the division between right and left for all the textareas at once, not only one by one, so that I can gain more horizontal space if I want; c) if it doesn't disrupt things too much (or when the changes above allow it), don't add scrollbars but always fit the height to what's actually needed to fit all the text.
Content translation uses an algorithm to fit both columns to minimum height without scrolling.
(In reply to Niklas Laxström from comment #1) > Content translation uses an algorithm to fit both columns to minimum height > without scrolling. Alright, we can adapt to the logic used over there. But I think its better to do these enhancements once GSoC is over. Because, apart from developing a logic similar to the one used at content translation, we would also have to make changes to the code related to adding and deletion of a new unit. Also, the h2 patch results into collapsing of some units into one. So, we also need to take this into consideration - imagine a large chunk of collapsed units in a textarea having height of just 3 rows because it got aligned with a section header. Quite a lot of issues to be considered there. But, I will only work on it and come up with something better. :-)
