Support more than seven columns of games to better fill ultrawide (21:9) screens about cartridges HOT 6 CLOSED

I do not want to expose this setting to users mainly because, as I said earlier, I think you would make things worse for yourself by allowing more rows and introducing unnecessary visual noise.

I've made the setting available via the command line though for those who really want it.

You will be able to set the number of rows via this command when the next update releases:

flatpak run --command=gsettings hu.kramo.Cartridges set hu.kramo.Cartridges library-rows [NUMBER-HERE]

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I was able to do this locally by setting the field max-children-per-line to 25 on this

I am not sure if this is how y'all would prefer to solve this problem, or if 25 makes sense I just picked arbitrary numbers until it filled my screen adequately, happy to open a PR if you'd like! Although it might make more sense for this to be configurable.

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This is not "a problem". There is a good reason the content stays in the middle. This is true for all GNOME apps. It might look silly maximized, however, our eyes can only focus on a small section at a time. Having too much information on screen at once can be overwhelming. I generally don't see the point of tiling windows on an ultrawide screen given how much you would need to move your eyes and mouse to access anything, but I can't tell you how to use your computer.

I've seen at least 2 people complain about this so I will probably make it a setting configurable only via the command line for those that want to, but it does not make sense to change this by default, nor to expose this setting to regular users.

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I will add that 7 columns is not enough to properly fill my 4k monitor either, it looked better with 8 columns IMO so there is a use for this outside of just ultra wide monitors. It would be better IMO for this setting to be easy to toggle rather than something you would have to toggle on the CLI, 4k resolution displays are very common these days. Happy to provide screenshots of Cartridges with 7 and 8 columns on a 4k display if that's helpful.

Using a 4k TV to play games off a computer is a very common use case.

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This is not "a problem". There is a good reason the content stays in the middle. This is true for all GNOME apps. It might look silly maximized, however, our eyes can only focus on a small section at a time. Having too much information on screen at once can be overwhelming.

That's interesting. I don't know anything about GNOME design philosophy, so I was also wondering why it stopped at 7 columns. On my 1920x1200 screen, only one more column would actually fit, so I wasn't sure if it was a bug.

I don't know that I would actually want Cartridges to fill an entire ultrawide monitor if I had one. Still, I would vote for making it configurable in some way (just because "why not?"), but keeping the default behavior as-is for the reasons stated. (I suppose my "why not?" attitude probably also clashes with the GNOME philosophy on implementing new features.)

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In the last version a file seemed to have been renamed and this command no longer works.

To use this command replace "hu" with "page" : "page.kramo.Cartridges"

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