Can't maximise evolution

[Mohegan]

When I maximise evolution, the window doesn't maximise. The decoration bar disappears but the window don't move. See the capture. (I use the daily unity-2d ppa)

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

I can’t reproduce on my setup. Can you reliably reproduce the issue, or does it happen randomly? Does it happen only with evolution, or with other windows too? What is the resolution of your screen?

Could you please paste here the output of the following command?

    dpkg -l unity-2d* metacity evolution

[Mohegan (jack-mohegan)]

Ok, this is it :
<<
Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder
| État=Non/Installé/fichier-Config/dépaqUeté/échec-conFig/H=semi-installé/W=attend-traitement-déclenchements
|/ Err?=(aucune)/besoin Réinstallation (État,Err: majuscule=mauvais)
||/ Nom Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii evolution 2.32.2-0ubuntu7 groupware suite with mail client and organizer
ii metacity 1:2.30.3-0ubuntu9 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii unity-2d 3.8.4.1-0ubuntu2~bzr558 Unity interface for non-accelerated graphics cards
un unity-2d-default-settings <none> (aucune description n'est disponible)
ii unity-2d-launcher 3.8.4.1-0ubuntu2~bzr558 Unity 2D Launcher
ii unity-2d-panel 3.8.4.1-0ubuntu2~bzr558 Unity 2D Panel
ii unity-2d-places 3.8.4.1-0ubuntu2~bzr558 Unity 2D Places
ii unity-2d-spread 3.8.4.1-0ubuntu2~bzr558 Unity 2D Spread
>>

Maybe, it is because my computer is a netbook with a low resolution 1024x600.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

The information provided doesn’t exhibit any clue as to a dependency problem or the like.

That may very well be because evolution/metacity doesn’t play well with this kind of resolution. Could you check what happens in a classic Gnome desktop session?

[Mohegan (jack-mohegan)]

Same bug with the classic gnome desktop. Apparently, this bug is not the first : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/638918

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

It looks more like bug #281217 to me, although both of them are old bugs and the situation may have improved/degraded in newer versions of evolution. In any case, it definitely looks like a bug in evolution itself, so I’ll change the affected project.

[Martina Utopia (martina-utopia)]

I have exactly the same problem as Mohegan. It always happens when I open Evolution. I have 1024x600 screen resolution too. When maximising, it is not possible to maximise the window content, although the menu bar moves into the title bar (as in Mohegan's screenshot). I also have the daily unity-2d ppa.

[Martina Utopia (martina-utopia)]

I should note that I didn't have this problem with Evolution before when I was using 10.04 and 10.10 Netbook Edition.

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

I verified this under a freshly-installed Natty (11.04) system.

This happens because, using french language (as the original reporter), the minimum dimensions for the default Evolution window are 1029x414. Thus, when asked to "maximize" (i.e. setting width to 1024), Evolution plainly refuses because it knows that its child widgets won't fit.

Of course, this involves two factors: width of the actual screen (that's why it's mostly prevalent on netbooks with narrower screens) and minimum width of the Evolution window, which mostly depends on language being used; these kinds of problems don't usually show themselves in english because it happens to be a "narrow" language, so to speak.

However, the problem can be reproduced in english as well, by using, for instance, a virtual machine with screen dimensions below 930x414 (the minimum size for the Evolution window in english), or perhaps by setting resolution to 800x600 or 640x480.

This behavior happens even using the Classic session.

Steps to reproduce:

1- Install Natty, selecting the English language.
2- Set the screen to a resolutionwith a width lower than 930 pixels (800x600 works).
3- Start Evolution, create a possibly dummy configuration.
4- Once the main Evolution window is on-screen, press the Maximize button

Additionally, to validate using the original reporter's configuration (french):

5- sudo apt-get install language-pack-gnome-fr
6- Set the screen to a resolution with a width lower than 1029 pixels (1024x600, typical netbook resolution, works).
7- Start Evolution doing:
     LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" LANGUAGE=fr_FR evolution
8- Maximize the Evolution window