Palimpsest GUI impossible to use on small screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Disks |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gnome-disk-utility (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Martin Pitt | ||
Maverick |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
gnome-disk-utility does not fit netbook screen. the window height is much more than 576px which basically make the app unusable on a netbook screen. The attached patch works fine as its already working in Meego and also its attached to the upstream bug report but there has been no activity from the upstream developers for more than 9months.
Moreover, when the window is "maximized", it is impossible to click on the parts of it that are visible. As the user moves the mouse and clicks, the window position keeps changing.
Worse, the window somehow decides to maximize itself.
This prevents the possible workaround of moving it with Alt+Mouse, rendering the GUI definitely impossible to use.
(When the user selects a filesystem mounted on the top of a cryptsetup mapper, whose path /dev/mapper/
TEST CASE: start gnome disk-utility on a netbook with 600px vertical pixels, click on the name of your hardrive. gdu window will do some weired things as it dont fit on the screen so basically becomes unusable.
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Diff: 71 lines (+40/-1)4 files modifieddebian/changelog (+9/-0)
debian/control (+2/-1)
debian/patches/02_add_scrolled_window.patch (+28/-0)
debian/patches/series (+1/-0)
affects: | libatasmart (Ubuntu) → gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
affects: | gnome-desktop → null |
Changed in null: | |
importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
status: | New → Unknown |
affects: | null → gnome-disk-utility |
Changed in gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in gnome-disk-utility: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gnome-disk-utility (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: patch-forwarded-debian |
Changed in gnome-disk-utility: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-disk-utility: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Fix Released → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-disk-utility (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-disk-utility: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Adding screengrab to illustrate the problem better