Find/Replace Dialog Maximized permanently in Writer

[TG Browning]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

OpenOffice.org 3.2.0
000320m12 (Build:9483)
ooo-build 3.2.0.10. Debian
1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4
Ubuntu Netbook 10.04

Writer

When one opens a Find/Replace dialog, it shows up maximized and there appears to be no way to change the size. It makes the Find/Replace dialog useless because one can't see ANY of the document one is searching.

This is probably a hardware problem because the computer being used is an Averatec N1000 series netbook which has a smaller screen. 10.2" is the claim from Averatec.
Uses a Mobile Intel945GMS Express Chipset.

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[Leo Arias (elopio)]

You can unmaximize the dialog double-clicking it's title bar. Or with right click>unmaximize.

It's not a hardware problem. It is a feature of Ubuntu netbook remix.
I agree that this dialog might be more useful unmaximized. But I don't know if it is possible to do an exception for only one dialog. Anyway, you should add another bug/feature request/question explaining this.

thanks for your report.

[TG Browning (tgbrowning)]

Leo,

Thanks for the quick reply. I thought I *had* tried that but I probably didn't -- I'm not terribly comfortable with OO-Write as yet. LOTS of things I need to learn, still. I'll give it a shot later tonight and get back to you.

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--- On Fri, 5/28/10, Leo Arias <email address hidden> wrote:

> From: Leo Arias <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 586929] Re: Find/Replace Dialog Maximized permanently in Writer
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Friday, May 28, 2010, 5:54 PM
> You can unmaximize the dialog
> double-clicking it's title bar. Or with
> right click>unmaximize.
>
> It's not a hardware problem. It is a feature of Ubuntu
> netbook remix.
> I agree that this dialog might be more useful unmaximized.
> But I don't know if it is possible to do an exception for
> only one dialog. Anyway, you should add another bug/feature
> request/question explaining this.
>
> thanks for your report.
>
> ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Invalid
>
> --
> Find/Replace Dialog Maximized permanently in Writer
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586929
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> of the bug.
>

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I'm not sure if this is actually an OOo bug or a Maximus bug, or just the way its expected to work with Maximus. I am assigning this bug to Maximus to see if someone more familiar with it can determine what should be done about the issue.