UI: Group pane is very small when having LO connector opened

[Siedlerchr]

OO/LO panel should be scrollable or a bit smaller

[matthiasgeiger]

As the buttons do not really need that much space to display the label text maybe an easy solution would be to reduce their size and put more buttons in one row (floating layout depending on the width of the panel)

[ddunig2]

@Siedlerchr May I take take this issue?

[Siedlerchr]

@ddunig2 Sure, go ahead! Read the contribution guide and for questions ask here or in our gitter chat

[ddunig2]

@Siedlerchr when you say Group pane is very small which group pane are you referring to?

[Siedlerchr]

See the Screenshot, the groups panel at the left side. The open office connector dialog takes
half of the space from the groups

[ddunig2]

@Siedlerchr Just to confirm, the blue box is taking too much vertical space?

[Siedlerchr]

Yes. Exactl. Create a library with some groups (toggle group view) and if you then toggle the Libre office connection you see.
how much space it consumes.
Maybe @AEgit could provide a Screenshot showing the issue with a lot of groups.

[AEgit]

JabRef 5.0-beta.19--2019-12-20--9b0dd5d
Windows 10 10.0 amd64
Java 13.0.1

Here an example with a database with several thousand groups (though you should already notice the issue with only a few groups):

[ddunig2]

A fix that I thought of was logical was to put the buttons in groups of threes, let me know if this seems piratical.

[AEgit]

Are two rows not feasible?

[ddunig2]

@AEgit There are nine items, I figured rows of three would be more logical but here is a look with two rows. What do you think?