gnome-tweak-tool unusable because buttons/selectors outside windows

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

gnome-tweak-tool is unusable, since it uses a window of a fixed size. Under unity (interestingly not under gnome3) this causes a problem with german localization. The german translations of the options are that long that the selectors are shifted outside the window and thus unusable. (A german translation is almost always significantly longer than an english text.)

Once upon a time, when Linux desktops in common and gnome in particular were still good, all windows were resizable, and it was just a flaw of Microsoft Windows to have unresizable Windows. But now, more and more software under Linux comes with unresizable windows. Broken by malicious design.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-tweak-tool 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 9 23:22:05 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:de_DE:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: gnome-tweak-tool
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-29 (11 days ago)

[Fritz Heinrichmeyer (fritz-heinrichmeyer)]

this is IMO the same bug i reported with #886006

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. I apologize that we are not always to respond to bug reports promptly. Ubuntu 11.10 reached End of Life in 2013. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Please upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and re-test.

Do feel free to report any other bugs you may find.