Not enough space to show all available options on (narrow) custom themes

Yes, I know...

I won't ask for a time estimate or anything or bother you with this again soon, but do you see a fix in the near future? I am asking because all this switching themes back and forth to have things done is a real pain in my neck.

... did I mention that I am prepared to beta-test any quick hack you might come up with? :)

Fair enough... I respect other peoples spare time.

Yes, now that I have your answer, I will do that. The only thing is that using a different theme would require me to double check every single change I make to the site. That will slow building a lot, but what can I do. Thanx anyways.

If I hack my way around it, I'll surely post back what I did in order to help others facing the same issue. Please keep this issue open though. I'd like to know that this is in your to-do list and one day it'll eventually get fixed.

well, I've changed the related css settings in the ../feeds_ui/feeds_ui.css like so:

/* Feeds edit form layout. */
div.feeds-settings {
  }
div.left-bar {
  float: left;
  /* position: relative; */
  width: 500px;
  /* border-right: 1px solid #D3E7F4; */
  /* padding: 10px 10px 0 0; */
  }
div.configuration {
  /* padding: 10px 0 0 250px; */
  /* margin-left: -240px; */
  }
  div.configuration-squeeze {
    /* margin-left: 250px; */
    }

This moved all configuration sections underneath their respective configuration settings. All I did is I removed (actually I've commended them out) almost all css styles of the left sidebar (configuration options) and all styles of the configuration section (respective settings for each left sidebar option). Next I've set the width of the left sidebar to be the same as the width of my main content area. This made the config section wrap underneath the options.

Now I see the light! Next step is to try and convert options section to a tab-like style or something, so I don't have to scroll down to find the settings for each option.

This is an ugly css hack that works only for my theme. At least I point people with the same issue to the right file and the right point within it. You guys might need to modify the width setting to mach that of your theme's main content area.

At this point I need to ask you alex:

1. Is there a specific reason why you've chosen to code the config interface this way? I mean all (at least most of them) other modules I use have a common concept where there is either collapsible sections for each option/section (the way the Drupal modules admin page is) or there are horizontal tabs.

2. Would you consider a UI rebuild in order to spare people from facing this issue in the future? Ok, I've managed to find a temporary workaround, but this needs to be applied each time the module is updated to a newer version (or perhaps people need to override this in their themes). Remember that modules are here to help people with little or no coding experience get things done. This is the other way right now. Plus I believe there are a lot of users that will have a narrow theme on heir site.

As a side note here, I've seen that in D7 the default way that configuration pages present their option sections is done the way you are trying to do it (see attached image). So there will be an easy transition to that when D7 is here, no need to be doing it now in D6 I think.

But hey, this is your module, so it's also your decision. If you think this all issue is really trivial and it won't effect lots of users, then feel free to even go ahead and change it from a 'bug report' to a 'support request' and mark it as 'fixed'.

Other than that, thank you (yet once again) for all your effort and time spent on bringing this fine module to us.

No problem alex. I'm glad to help in any way I can. Thanx for considering this.

As for the vertical tabs in D7... be it an out-of-the-box solution or not, I still think we'll be facing the same issue with narrow, fixed width themes. The reason I mentioned it is that I was wondering why the current UI doesn't follow the default D6 pattern other modules seem to be using. Anyways...

We'll talk again once other more important issues are solved and once there is time for this one. In the meantime, if I come up with more hacks, I'll be posting it back here to help others. Thank you for not 'closing' this issue.

Hey alex... I know your hands are full (I watch the issue queue) with more important things, but I'd like you to know that I came across this Region Visibility module.

Perhaps if you find the time you can add a note on your module's page saying something like:

Narrow themes? Please consider using the Region Visibility module as a temporary workaround until #702724: Not enough space to show all available options on (narrow) custom themes is fixed.

I know this is only a workaround, since all you do is hide some regions and to some people this might not be desirable, but I think this will help a lot of people till you have the time for that UI rewrite.

Thank you.

...still watching the queue, I see you must still be busy with other things.

...still, nobody else having this issue :(

This is an update regarding the use of the Region Visibility module I mentioned in my previous post. I had no luck with it, as it only hides region contents and not the divs in the .tpl.php files.

...still stuck with my workaround in post #7 :(