Arbitrary windows non-maximizable

[Jani Uusitalo]

There are many windows that would benefit from having the maximize button available but don't. I produced snapshots of the history window, the 'Downloading Package Information' window and the 'Mark additional required changes' window. IIRC, the downloading packages and installing packages windows are also affected, though I couldn't produce snapshots of those right now without installing sh... numerous packages I don't want. Software sources is also affected, I guess that should be marked separately.

All these windows tend to have huge listings in them, and scrolling through those listings in cramped space is difficult. They're already resizable (as they should be), so why not allow easy maximizing as well?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: synaptic 0.75.5~exp6
Uname: Linux 3.3.0-030300rc4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 09ae689090491ca53449589269e4bfd8
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Sun Feb 26 16:54:22 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-22 (4 days ago)

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

I have checked all these windows on Quantal (synaptic 0.75.12build1), and all of these windows have a maximize button, so I am marking this as Fix released. Feel free to reopen if you still experience this issue.

[Jani Uusitalo (uusijani)]

Thanks, I can confirm that all the windows I posted screenshots of above now have maximizers in Quantal. The package downloading window (which I only mentioned) also had one, but there was one still missing it: the 'Applying Changes' window. That one also sometimes gets quite a bit of content with the 'Details' pseudo terminal. I didn't post a screenshot of it above, I'll do so now below with Synaptic 0.75.12build1 running in a VM.

Also, I did notice that the maximizers were missing from all of the fixed windows too when running Gnome Classic (No Effects). But I guess that's going the way of the dinosaurs anyway so it probably doesn't matter. With Gnome Classic (without "No Effects") the maximizers were there, as with LXDE and Xfce. (Non-fallback Gnome 3 was misbehaving too much to be able to tell either way.)