Gnome-session-properties loads with too small a default window

[Jon Loldrup]

/usr/bin/gnome-session-properties (System->Preferences->Startup Applications)

G-s-p starts up with small window (450x375 pixels) in the centre of the screen. This results in a number of textual descriptions in the main list box being cut off short and hidden by other widgets, even when when there is plenty of available room on the display.

Ideally g-s-p should start up at a larger size, allowing the user a better view of the control panel options and their descriptions.

Original report:

When displaying options about which programs should start with Ubuntu, a sentence describing each option is shown. Or, parts of a sentence, that is. The rest is hidden. This is without reason. A monitor is plenty big to show the whole sentence, and the window is therefore unnecessarily small. See attached picture.

I'm using ubuntu 10.04

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't believe this counts as a papercut as it is not the sort of thing the average user would encounter on a regular basis. It seems to me that only people with a technical expertise of between above average user level and power level user will want to use this application while the average user will only change the startup/default application when an application notifies them that it is not default.

This should count as a bug rather than a papercut.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

If I understand correctly, this bug report is /actually/ that the application should start-up with a sensibly-sized window (FSVO sensibly) rather than being 450x375 pixels in size when the available desktop area in most cases is considerably bigger; the a larger window the likely-hood that the whole description fits on the line is increased.

[Vish (vish)]

I agree with Paul, the window should open a sensible size.

[Vish (vish)]

Oh, we already have a bug 350329 regarding this, with an upstream bug.