Dictionary lookup applet is far too small

[Sam Morris]

Binary package hint: gnome-utils

The window that contains results from the dictionary lookup applet is far too small. With the default font size I can only see about one line of the definitions that I look up.

There doesn't seem to be any way to shrink the text (without chaing the user interface font for all programs) nor is there a way to make the result window any larger.

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl)]

Moreover, most keystrokes, such as arrow navigation or page down, which might be able to help this situation, are not accepted by the applet (it doesn't take the focus?).

The window must be resizable, the lookup-word font smaller, less space under the title, and a vastly better scrolling interface is needed.

The only way to use it right now is to try to highlight everything in the window, and then paste it into another application to read it!

There also needs to be SOME way to make the window go away other than mouse-clicking on the dictionary icon in the panel.

I'm using the latest Dapper. The problem exists regardless of whether the panel is on a side edge or top/bottom.
I believe things were much better under breezy, but I can't remember exactly how it worked.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That works fine for me but the issue is being discussed upstream, maybe they will figure why it happens to some people only

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed upstream

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

 gnome-utils (2.15.90-0ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release:
     - Baobab:
       - Fix compilation with gcc 2.95.
     - Dictionary:
       - Correctly resize the applet's definition window when a new definition
         is found. (Malone: #48386)
       - Fix the toggling of the applet's definition window using Escape.
       - Add a full side bar.
       - Show the available databases and perform a query based on the
         selected database
       - Miscellaneous fixes.
       - Allow the definition window to grow at most at half the size of the
         screen
       - Move to beginning of the entry when jumping between definitions
       - Add completion support to the look up entry
     - Floppy:
       - Fix compilation with gcc 2.95.
     - Screenshot:
       - Find the last mark to catch the extension when selecting the file
         name.
     - Translations Updates: bn_IN, cs, cy, de, dz, el, es, eu, fi, fr, gl, gu,
       hi, ko, nl, ru, sv, ta, th, zh_CN.
   * debian/control.in:
     - added baobab to Description. (Malone: #52823)