Disk Utility (palimpsest) doesn't resize itself anymore, requiring users to do so to use it

[Yfrwlf]

The Disk Utility program (palimpsest) used to resize itself after selecting a drive. Now, when you select a drive, the window is ALWAYS too small, REQUIRING the user to make it bigger or to scroll the scroll bars to see all the options in the right panel.

One solution to this issue would be to bring back the behaviour of the old program which auto-resized itself. While I can understand windows resizing themselves being a slightly annoying feature, this way it is now is much more so, and if you wanted to solve both issues you could simply make the default window size of Disk Utility be big enough to show the right panel without scrollbars after a drive is selected, or to reduce the size of things in the right panel so that it will fit in the existing default window size.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

I've removed the middle two paragraphs that referred to a problem with the impact zone for resizing windows as a bug report should be restricted to a single issue, and the difficulty in resizing windows is already a known bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/160311?comments=all).

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Invalidating as a paper cut since disk maintenance isn't a task the average user is likely to be carrying out.

[Vish (vish)]

Thanks for forwarding the bug upstream.

[Yfrwlf (yfrwlf)]

There is no gconf setting for the default window size of palimpsest unfortunately, at least not that I could find.

[PrivateUser132781 (privateuser132781-deactivatedaccount)]

I have to disagree with the low/wishlist importance. This bug seriously impacts usability and "polish". It is the kind of thing that a commercial operating system would not let slip through and reinforces the impression that Linux-based OSs are left unfinished.

[Yfrwlf (yfrwlf)]

Agreed, resizing is basically required to use this program so either the initial window needs to be created larger or automatic resizing needs to be re-enabled.