[ubuntu lucid] evolution dialogs do not fit on netbook screens
Bug #559459 reported by
ullix
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Evolution |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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evolution (Ubuntu) |
New
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: evolution
running post beta2 ubuntu lucid.
evolution has several configuration dialog boxes, which do not fit - even after maximizing - on a netbook screen of 1024x600, and do not offer vertikal scrolls. changing anything in the bottom parts becomes very tricky.
Options and tabs effected are e.g. Mail Preferences -> General (sreenshot attached) , Calendar and Tasks ->General,
while e.g Mail Preferences -> Junk exceeds the screen but already does offer a vertcal scroll bar
Changed in evolution: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
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for anyone else seeing this, yes you can work around by alt-click-drag the dialog up beyond the top of the screen, then right-click resize dialog downward, but even that procedure is fraught with trouble. Sometimes the window manager is too helpful and tries to help you resize the dialog horizontally and not vertically. ALSO you have to alt-click drag the dialog back down to reach the top again.
It would be SO much easier if Evolution (and other panels with large numbers of options) added scroll bars when the contents are too small to fit the dialog.
It's very nice that the Ubuntu Netbook Edition packagers added the "smarts" so maximus knows not to maximize Evolution's dialogs, but apparently it can't get in there and make the insides more visible. Or could it?