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Preferences dialog is too tall for 1280x800 screen

Bug #654049 reported by Alex Willmer on 2010-10-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #23810: Evolution is unusable in 1024x768. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Evolution	Unknown	Unknown	gnome-bugs #631224
	evolution (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

In Maverick the preferences dialog does not fit in the space available on a 1280x800 desktop, and it cannot be resized.

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Alex Willmer (alex-moreati) wrote on 2010-10-03:

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote on 2010-10-03:

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Indeed. With the stock theme on a brand new laptop (not netbook) I can't even see the close button.

Changed in evolution (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Ivy (blazemore-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-10-03:

Can't you just do something to GTK to prevent applications from spawning dialogues bigger than the screen?
Or is there some technical reason not to do this? (political reasons don't count!)

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2010-10-03:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 23810 , so it is being marked as such.

Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.