Can't maximise "Board Setup" and "Edit Symbol Fields" dialogs.

[Leandro Heck]

The "Board Setup" window is not a fully working window this annoys so much. Assign net classes, for example, is not a good thing to do on a small window.

The same happens with "Symbol Fields" window which is a spreadsheet window that cannot be maximized. It is the best feature on Eeschema but it is horrible to use since I cant maximize and I can't use the half-screen shortcuts that came with gnome.

I can't maximize it, just resize with the mouse. I can't move it from the center of the main window since I am using it on Gnome 3.

Application: kicad
Version: 5.1.2-f72e74a~84~ubuntu19.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.64.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1b zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) libssh/0.8.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.36.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.0.0-15-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.67.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.64.0
    Compiler: GCC 8.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Michael Kavanagh (michaelkavanagh)]

Please define what a "fully working window" is.

On Windows I can maximise the Edit Symbol Fields dialog but not the Board Setup dialog.
On macOS I can maximise both the Edit Symbol Fields and Board Setup dialog.

[Leandro Heck (leoheck)]

The same happens on the "DRC Control" window. I can't maximize it, I also
can' t send the window behind the layout (main) window. So I have to move
it away to be able to work on the layout.

--
Leandro Heck

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 9:40 AM Michael Kavanagh <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Please define what a "fully working window" is.
>
> On Windows I can maximise the Edit Symbol Fields dialog but not the Board
> Setup dialog.
> On macOS I can maximise both the Edit Symbol Fields and Board Setup dialog.
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1829950
>
> Title:
> Board setup window
>
> Status in KiCad:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> The "Board Setup" window is not a fully working window this annoys so
> much. Assign net classes, for example, is not a good thing to do on a
> small window.
>
> The same happens with "Symbol Fields" window which is a spreadsheet
> window that cannot be maximized. It is the best feature on Eeschema
> but it is horrible to use since I cant maximize and I can't use the
> half-screen shortcuts that came with gnome.
>
> I can't maximize it, just resize with the mouse. I can't move it from
> the center of the main window since I am using it on Gnome 3.
>
>
>
> Application: kicad
> Version: 5.1.2-f72e74a~84~ubuntu19.04.1, release build
> Libraries:
> wxWidgets 3.0.4
> libcurl/7.64.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1b zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.5
> libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) libssh/0.8.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.36.0
> librtmp/2.3
> Platform: Linux 5.0.0-15-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
> Build Info:
> wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+
> 3.24
> Boost: 1.67.0
> OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
> Curl: 7.64.0
> Compiler: GCC 8.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013
>
> Build settings:
> USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
> USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
> KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
> BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
> KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
> KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
> KICAD_SPICE=ON
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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>

[Jakub Kozdon (fldrivers)]

--

Application: KiCad
Version: (5.99.0-6-gbc0e67579), debug build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.2
    libcurl/7.52.1 OpenSSL/1.0.2s zlib/1.2.8 libidn2/0.16 libpsl/0.17.0 (+libidn2/0.16) libssh2/1.7.0 nghttp2/1.18.1 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.62.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.8.0
    Curl: 7.52.1
    Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 with C++ ABI 1010

Build settings:
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON
    KICAD_STDLIB_DEBUG=OFF
    KICAD_STDLIB_LIGHT_DEBUG=OFF
    KICAD_SANITIZE=OFF

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

This appears to allow maximization at the moment. Both with the button and the context menu.

Please include the window manage you are using that is not allowing maximization

[Jakub Kozdon (fldrivers)]

Mutter (Muffin)

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

I'll set this to Won't Fix at the moment. If it reproduces on one of the supported window managers from http://kicad-pcb.org/help/system-requirements/#_additional_linux_considerations we can re-open and see if there is something we can fix.

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

Oops, was too fast there. Leaving at incomplete as I see Leandro has observed this under Gnome3

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

@Seth, why would we expect these two dialogs to any different than the rest of our dialogs? I just looked and none of our other dialogs allow maximizing on GTK builds. We could add the maximize window decorations but this would make them inconsistent with the rest of the dialogs. I'm not sure this is a good idea. I'm not completely opposed to the idea. If these dialogs were modeless or stand alone main frame windows then enabling the maximize feature might make more sense.

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

That's the odd thing. We do enable the maximize window decoration explicitly and it works as expected on XFCE. I'm not sure what's going on with Gnome. Is there a dialog under gnome that does allow maximization?

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

I didn't look a all of them but of the 6 or 7 that I looked at, the maximize context menu entry was disabled. I suspect you have to create the dialog with the wxMAXIMIZE_BOX[1] style although I didn't test this. I'm not sure why some WMs allow this to be enabled. I do not think this would be a good idea for dialog windows in general. It will show the maximize button in the title bar on platforms that support it. AFAIR, most application dialog windows do not do this.

[1]: https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/classwx_dialog.html#a9eaef1625f225bc25f8c92449d123a67

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision ccc3b812b8cf0152db334fede8ec61b46bb24221
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=ccc3b812b8cf0152db334fede8ec61b46bb24221