install window with terminal doesn't fit to 800x600

[Artūras Šlajus]

package install window with terminal doesn't fit to 800x600

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Can you please set "Settings/Fonts and Colors/Preferences/Use custrom Terminal
Font" to Monospace 8pt (or 7pt) and tell me if that fixes your problem? I think
the default should be 8pt (still looks reasonable on a 1280x1024 screen), but my
tests show that it still does not fit very well into a 800x600 screen.

[Artūras Šlajus (x11)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you please set "Settings/Fonts and Colors/Preferences/Use custrom Terminal
> Font" to Monospace 8pt (or 7pt) and tell me if that fixes your problem? I think
> the default should be 8pt (still looks reasonable on a 1280x1024 screen), but my
> tests show that it still does not fit very well into a 800x600 screen.
>
8pt doesn't fin to 800x600 screen and 7pt is too small even for 800x600.

[Ramon de Ruiter (won)]

Also, when i have a repository like:
http://people.debian.org/~goedson/packages/ubuntu/hoary/gnomebaker/releases/i386/
the Software Preferences window doesn't fit in my 1024x768px screen.
I think synaptic should never get larger than the current resolution.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Also, when i have a repository like:
> http://people.debian.org/~goedson/packages/ubuntu/hoary/gnomebaker/releases/i386/
> the Software Preferences window doesn't fit in my 1024x768px screen.
> I think synaptic should never get larger than the current resolution.

Thanks for this problemreport. This should be fixed in the latest cvs version of
the software.

[Felix Miata (mrmazda)]

I was going to file a new report, but my complaint seems to tie into this stale yet remaining open bug.

The terminal content is too hard to read, because the white on black terminal text is too small if the resolution is high or the screen small. My legibility threshold is shown in the screenshot by the menu and urlbar text in Firefox. You can see the terminal text is smaller, while my considerably larger comfortable reading size is shown in the Firefox viewport in the browser default size.

What's worse is that there's no apparent way to fix gnome settings when running Kubuntu/KDE. In addition, which is the bug subject, the changes window and any message windows it spawns are not adaptable to the environment and are not resizable.

This portion of the product needs to be made friendlier in order to be usable at all.