Who are you: Too much space around username field when 'invalid username' message is displayed

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Oneiric Desktop 20110821

When the user enters an invalid username, an error message is displayed next to the field. When this message is displayed, empty space is added above and below the username field changing the geometry of the main window.

See enclosed screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 22 10:54:09 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-12 (40 days ago)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The fix here is to switch to GtkGrid, which does sensible height-for-width geometry management.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.9.20

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ubiquity (2.9.20) precise; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Restore old fallback code in case /cdrom/casper/filesystem.size doesn't
    exist (LP: #557388).
  * Fix some more uses of deprecated python-apt APIs.
  * ubiquity-dm: Try openbox after openbox-lubuntu (LP: #888107).
  * Thomson SA is now called Technicolor SA (LP: #856992).
  * Limit maximum length of username editing widgets to 32 (LP: #831319).
  * UTF-8-encode the syslog message when a geoname lookup fails, since it
    might include non-ASCII characters entered by the user (LP: #928891).
  * Run test suite under xvfb-run by default when running it from the
    command line. 'tests/run --no-xvfb' inhibits this behaviour for cases
    where it's useful to see the UIs constructed by the test suite.
  * Stop manually inserting newlines in hostname and username errors. GTK+
    3 seems to do a reasonable job of wrapping these by itself now.
  * Port the user page from GtkTable to GtkGrid, so that we get sensible
    height-for-width geometry management (LP: #830933).
  * Internationalise hostname and username validation errors (LP: #784825).

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Have two separate failsafe attempts for 'fbdev' and 'vesa'. It's
    possible that /dev/fb0 will exist but be backed by a VGA framebuffer
    causing X to exit non-zero.

  [ Stéphane Graber ]
  * Use the Xubuntu wallpaper when available. (LP: #936572)
  * Detect bogus DNS servers and ignore them. (LP: #760884)
  * Automatic update of included source packages: base-installer
    1.122ubuntu5, choose-mirror 2.39ubuntu4.
 -- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:09:02 -0500

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

oneiric has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the oneiric task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".