Persistence when resizing Message filter and some other dialogs

[Tim Schofield]

Binary package hint: evolution

In the edit Message Filter I always have to resize the window as some of the auto generatate descriptions are a bit long. This resize is not permanent, next time I try to edit my filters it is back to its original size.

I tried the following dialogs some had resize persistance some didn't and a couple hand no resize handles ( although they probably did not need it). I would have thought there would be some level of consistancy in this.

No Resize Persistance

File -> import
File -> Print
Edit -> Syncronisation Options
Edit -> Message Filters
Edit -> Search Folder
Edit -> Plugins
Edit -> Preferences
Folder -> New
Folder -> Copy Folder To..
Folder -> Move Folder To..

Resize Persistance

File -> Backup Settings
File -> Restore Settings
File -> Save Message
View -> Message Source
Folder -> Subscriptions

No Resize Handle
File -> Page Setup
Help -> About

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Tim Schofield (tim-scoffer)]

Yes this is reproducibile

Example of Non Persistant dialogue (Edit -> Message Filter)

Open Evolution
Goto Edit - Message Filters
Resize the Message Filters dialog with your mouse
Click OK or Cancel
Goto Edit - Messge Filters
The message filters dialog is no longer the resized size it is back to the default size.

Example of persistant dialogue (File -> Save Message)

Goto File - Save Message
Resize the Save Message dialog with your mouse
Click Cancel
Goto Edit - Save Message
The save message dialog is now the same size as you resized it previously.

For the sake of consistancy all windows/dialogs should reopen at the size the user left it at

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, that's known upstream, you can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217988

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

Bug from 2009. Version not longer supported.
Change status to Invalid (see gnome-bugs)