ubiquity window doesn't fit inside an 800x600 desktop during manual partitioning

Bug #729057 reported by Eliah Kagan
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

With a resolution of 800x600, running ubiquity and selecting manual partitioning results in the manual partitioning step (called "Allocate drive space") expanding the Ubiquity window below the bottom of the screen, so that it is very difficult to approve the specified partition scheme and continue with the installation (i.e. the Install Now button is below the bottom of the screen). This is illustrated by the attached full-screen screenshot.

This is with the daily live install CD (i.e. desktop CD) for Natty, downloaded on 3/4/2011. The md5sum for the ISO image (natty-desktop-i386.iso) is 5f1c4376fb3c42742627d9f77e83547e. The ubiquity package version is 2.5.22.

While low resolutions like 800x600 are less common than they used to be (except on netbooks), there are three other usage cases for such a low resolution (and most users in these situations would likely be installing Ubuntu Desktop Edition rather than the netbook version):

(1) This is a common way to increase the size of text and other GUI elements, employed by people who have trouble seeing them at higher resolutions.

(2) When upgrading or replacing their computers, many people keep their old monitors. Most monitors support resolutions higher than 800x600, but they do not necessarily support higher resolutions with desirable color depth and refresh rate.

(3) When using a virtual machine, the "screen" of the virtual machine tends to be small when it is displayed inside a window on the host desktop. This is my situation.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ubiquity 2.5.22
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 4 13:09:21 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110304)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) wrote :
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #727905, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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