Install progress report window shouldn't resize

[Miquel Torres]

Binary package hint: ubiquity-frontend-kde

It is a usability issue. The window size starts small (you can't even read the win title), and as larger tasks begin to be displayed, the window gets progressively bigger.

It happens in all Kubuntul last releases, including 9.10 Alpha 2
The progress window should have a fixed size
TO REPRODUCE:
- Start kubuntu live-cd
- Start hard disk installation
- Complete all steps and click Install
- A progress bar window pops up

[Miquel Torres (tobami)]

The same happens inside KPackagekit when doing an update. The progress windows keeps resizing itself continually. It gets bigger or smaller depending on the package it is updating. That leaves a very bad and flaky impression.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks a lot for reporting this. It has been some time since the original report, and I was wondering if this problem was still affecting you.

[Miquel Torres (tobami)]

Hi,

well, obviously there have been a lot of changes since then in the KPackagekit department. On my Maverick desktop the issue is gone, and the update progress window doesn't dance around any more: it has a fixed width.

I did not test the ubiquity installation, as that involves actually starting to install Kubuntu, i.e. formatting a partition ;-)

So to conclude I would say that the issue is fixed, but some one should test the live-cd installation to confirm it.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Should be fixed with the remake of the UI that arrived some releases ago.