Fixed-size notes support

[qmaldon]

Hi all,

These changes apply to stickynotes only.

This is my first PR on a Mate repo. Please bear with me, since there are a few things that are not straightforward:

1. Multiple changes were done automatically by the build system into .po files.
   I understand these are translation files caused by a change I did in stickynotes/sticky-notes-preferences.ui
2. All changes were verified manually in my host (RHEL 8). I'm not sure if your CI/CD system will kick in during PR.
3. Is there a way to get this branch backported to 1.26?

What is being enhanced & fixed:

1. [Enhanced] Support for fixed size notes. That is, a mechanism to disallow notes resizing (on all notes).
2. [Bug fix] On a large note (vertical length > screen height), after restarting the stickynotes applet there are no verifications of the w,h sizes stored in the xml file; as consequence no automatic scrollbar is set, leading to an ugly and difficult to manage note.
   This is fixed now, since during startup a check based on screen size is done (propagated from existed code).

Please look at the following images to get an idea of the code changes:

I decided to make these changes since the stickynotes applet has been one of my main productivity tools since 2014 (I used to run RHEL 5 at that time).

Please let me know if there is any change needed or edit as you see fit.

Thanks

Quintin Maldonado

[mbkma]

Hi, thanks for contributing! Please do not change po files here. This will be overwritten by transifex anyway. To untrack po files, I belive it is
git rm -r --cached <folder>
I am not sure though.

[qmaldon]

Hi, thanks for contributing! Please do not change po files here. This will be overwritten by transifex anyway. To untrack po files, I belive it is git rm -r --cached <folder> I am not sure though.

Hi @mbkma ,
Removed .po changes from branch as suggested. Please have a look.

I think there is an issue in the debian build. Fedora looks good.

Is there a way to get this branch backported to 1.26?

Following up on this, perhaps it would be 1.26.2?

Thanks

Quintin Maldonado

[vkareh]

I rebased from master, fixed the merge conflicts and the indentation/spacing issues. It works well for me and fixes the notes resizing automatically when you add text to them (which is really annoying).