[8.0rc1] Too much space wasted

This is clear regression in 8.0 as it narrows usable space for issues, notes. It creates two large spots of "whitespace" which are just doing nothing.

Please re-consider (see attached screenshot for highlighted in red areas.

mentioned in issue #2572 (closed)

Hi thank you for your feedback. Our fixed content width is useful for better readability.

If the content will be to wide. Some users will have a hard time focusing on the text because it makes difficult to define where the content starts and ends.

So let those some users to configure width of their content. I want to have content as wide as possible.

we will consider this for future fixes and releases. Thank you!

I also think Content width should be Fixed for better readability but perhaps we can add a sidebar presenting useful Information on some Pages if whitespace is available

@swiffer thank you for your feedback, yeah I'm also thinking about something like this. From other hand people with 13' displays will never see that :)

Then at least kill that bluish background, from which I want to get up and jump out of a window... why white color didn't work?

But the ones with big 4K screens will :) dont Know How Users access the webinterface mostly

Think content area should be visually seperated from background; what about resizing your window?

Indeed. This is only an issue on screens with high resolutions. (higher than 1280x1024)
Most people still don't have a higher resolution at work. (At home it looks different 😉 )

So i seriously should Love my employer

Guys think about this like a foundation for bigger things, it's not like design for design, it will be something that I believe everyone will enjoy to use.

Most people still don't have a higher resolution at work. (At home it looks different )

I have here two 24" 1920x1200 😏 Looking forward to 4k.

From other hand people with 13' displays will never see that :)

@skyruler What about retina displays?

I'm constantly working on 27" iMac 5k, and having those bards is killing whole purpose (except retina one ;-)) of this display.

@razer6 i tested on my laptop should be fine :)

I'm constantly working on 27" iMac 5k, and having those bards is killing whole purpose (except retina one ;-)) of this display.

@sashk Reading full width text on 27" is actually not best experience. Thats why many blogs (like Medium) limit width of text content. We took 1200px content width limit as good compromise between readability and enough space for UI.

Talking about purpose of 27" I use half of screen for browser with GitLab and another half of screen for editor or another tools.

Reading full width text on 27" is actually not best experience.

Nobody talks about text, but viewing attached plots, graphs and so on – is very useful to have view as wide as possible. In version 8 they will be very narrow. Notes will have them even more narrower.

What can fix the problem, is clicking on image opens it's large preview as layer on the issue, not into the new window or something like that...

Added ~12742 label

I also previously reported this at #2314 (closed).

Looks like this was fixed in Gitlab 8.1 with an option to use wider formatting. Closing.

Status changed to closed

Looks like this was fixed in Gitlab 8.1 with an option to use wider formatting

correct.

If you have troubles finding where to change it:

• go to profile settings
• click on "Preferences"
• change Layout width to one you need

Screenshot:

mentioned in issue #25840 (closed)