cannot run evolution full screen and have a hard time resizing

[Robert Quigley]

Binary package hint: evolution

After upgrading to ubuntu 10.10 I cannot read evolution email as the screen is too large. I cannot use full screen after icon is clicked nothing happens and the mail screen only goes half way down on the computer screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evolution 2.30.3-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 12 20:08:47 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution

[Ian (ian-web1)]

This is a very annoying problem.

Evolution cannot be resized horizontally, because the minimum width is larger than the screen width (1024px minus the size of the new Unity Sidebar).

If Evolution is then changed to full screen, the window frame and title bar disappear, but the window is not resized, so you get confusing graphics (instead of the title bar you see the topmost pixels of the window behind, which is most likely a menu bar of another open window...)

(BTW: The "Netbook-Window-Resizer" should try to resize vertically only if hor/vert resizing fails).

Maybe a part of the problem is that the last column in Mail view (Date) cannot be resized on the right side, so it is not possible to reduce the size of the email view. Hence it is not possible to reduce the window width at all.

It is possible to switch to fullscreen after the sidebar of evolution is disabled, but then you cannot change mail folders.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, can you take an screenshot of the issue? are you using evolution in a Netbook?

[Ian (ian-web1)]

The menu bar above evolution is the menu bar of firefox (last opened window before evolution).

[Pyros (pyros)]

Here's my "Full size" evolution...

I have to window it to be able to see the right of the columns

[Lumo_74 (bjoern-achttatzen)]

Same Evolution Issue while using Gnome 2D Session with netbook-luncher-efl on Maverick.
System: Netbook 10" display

[Ian (ian-web1)]

Why this bug is still marked as incomplete? What information is missing?

I also think the importance is higher than "low" because it affects all netbook users that use evolution and upgraded from a previous release.

[Lumo_74 (bjoern-achttatzen)]

I have tried to do an upgrade but it fails. So I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 newly.
(but i have a seperate home partition that was reused during installation without formating)
I have the same issue.

[cyd (cyd)]

Fresh install of 10.10 ubuntu, same problem, can't set full screen, the assistant is too large too, can't see the next button until moving the window on a 1024*600 resolution, if i set evolution fullscreen, evolution is not usable, so it have to be run in windowed mode on 2 screens !

should'nt all apps be optimised from 9" screen to * ?

[arkaitzswagman (arkaitzswagman)]

Hello,

I haven't been able to resize it either, nor when under UNE 10.04... It is indeed very annoying, I am considering switching to thunderbird, though I really appreciate evolution...
(netbook Samsung NB30 1024 * 600)

[arkaitzswagman (arkaitzswagman)]

I haven't been able to use evolution full screen with whatever resolutions both on my netbook and desktops without having windows (all of them) moving a few pixels right or left when clicking in them.
(I switched to thunderbird)

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501222

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

If would be helpful if you could try some possible workarounds.

Can somebody please check whether setting evolution to run in the english locale makes it work better (you can do this by starting evolution with "LC_MESSAGES=C evolution" on the command-line.

It would also be good to test the other workarounds from the upstream bug, like disabling the sidebars to see if the window keeps the right size or can be resized.

[Bernhard Reiter (ockham-razor)]

This seems to have been marked Invalid as the upstream bug was marked as a duplicate of Gnome bug 462786. I'm setting the Remote Watch to that bug now.

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

Change status to Fix Released (see gnome-bugs)