[kde-doc-english] Khelpcenter stylesheet issues - again

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2012, 23:45:53 schrieb Burkhard Lück:
> Hi,
> 
> a few month ago we had a discussion on this list about Khelpcenter
> stylesheet issues, see
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-doc-english&m=131419999120078&w=2
> 
> I'd like to get back to issue 3) from that discussion:
> "distance between the last line of text and the top of the footer is too
> big"
> 
> In one of the mails in this thread Michael Pyne wrote:
> > IIRC the amount of padding was in order to ensure that the footer appears
> > at the bottom of very short pages. It should be compensated for by a
> > corresponding negative padding-bottom (or some other CSS hack) elsewhere.
> 
> At first glance this seems to be a great idea to have the footer always at
> the bottom of the page, but from my pov this idea fails, because it is
> impossible to define what a *very short page* due to:
> 
> * you can use KHelpcenter in Full Screen Mode or in a user defined window
> size, each with different sizes for a *very short page*
> 
> * you can change the font size in KHelcenter, so a *very short page* can
> only be defined for the default font size in KHelpcenter
> 
> * on monitors with different format 16:9 and 4:3 you have different sizes
> of a *very short page* even in Full Screen Mode
> 
> My conclusion:
> 
> It is impossible to define a *very short page* because that is controlled
> by the user, therefore the padding-bottom under contentBody in kde-doc.css
> should be changed from actually 8.9 to 1em.
> 
> I'd like to read your comments please.
> 
> Thanks

Any more comments, improvements, onjections?

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Burkhard Lück