On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:40:00 GMT, Simon Smith wrote: > A fix which would mitigate matters is if the proportion of the lower scroll > bar (or, even better, the absolute size in pixels) allocated to the > horizontal scroll was configurable and/or persistent from window to window.
You can configure it by changing toolbar_status_size in your Choices file. It's in 100ths of a percent, eg. the default is 6667, which equates to 66.67% of the horizontal space allocated to the status bar part. > I appreciate that some URLs are impossibly long, and only a multi-line URL > display would ever be able to fully display them, but in the meantime there > are several ways you could mitigate the problem. (e.g. a key shortcut that > toggles full-length (or at least a longer) URL display, a hovering link > display tooltip, using the !Help application to display the link, etc.) > Personally I would be happy to have the URL given a whole line of its own, > even though that would sacrifice some vertical screen space, because I feel > this info is important enough to justify such a usage. And a full line would > usually be sufficient space, whereas on my setup half a line often isn't. A better fix might be for the end of the URL to be given priority (aka right-justify), or some shortening technique where the domain and the end of the URL are shown, but the middle is truncated with ellipsis if it is above a certain length. I'm not sure the latter is feasible without some changes in NetSurf, but the former is easy to change in the frontend code. I can however see a problem with links which also have alt text, as that tends to get appended to the URL in the status bar and _might_ prevent the URL being shown at all if it is particularly long. Chris
