Tooltip at the bottom of a window obscures the last item

Bug #828255 reported by José Alburquerque
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi. This is a usability bug. The tooltip that comes up saying which items have been selected in a nautilus window obscures the last item making unreadable and difficult to select because it becomes unreadable. The two screenshots that will be attached show the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.1.4-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 17 14:17:22 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-12 (4 days ago)

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José Alburquerque (jaalburquerque) wrote :
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José Alburquerque (jaalburquerque) wrote :
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José Alburquerque (jaalburquerque) wrote :
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José Alburquerque (jaalburquerque) wrote :

I should have said in the initial report that this bug makes selecting multiple items with the cursor keys (and the space and CTRL keys) practically impossible when the final item in the window is reached because the items that scroll up are never readable at the bottom of the window.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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