Impossible to upgrade 13.04 to 13.10 on 1024x600 screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
To upgrade (x)ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 on my laptop with a 1024x600px screen is impossible.
Reason:
The "Do you want to start the upgrade?" popup has ALL buttons for yes/no confirmation OUTSIDE of the available screenspace. Thus you cant even abort the procedure, let alone start it, just remain stuck in limbo (until you kill it via commandline).
As seen on the screenshot there is ample space in the pop-up, but the forced minimum height of the popup still pushes the buttons out of reach off screen. The seen size is after manually changing the popup window size to the absolute minimum allowed.
Potentially there are several solutions here
1) Lower the forced minimum height requirement to something that is a bit more sane (eg 400px insted of 800? or whatever the current limit is)
2) Is the any real logical reason for requiring a MINIMUM height at all? If not, why not have a default and let the user be able to resize the window as they please/need?
3) There is an invention called scroll-bar. Excellent tool for allowing things that don't fit in eg a popup window to still be both readable and reachable.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-35-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.5
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Wed Feb 19 06:25:56 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-03 (321 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
Symptom: dist-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2014-02-19 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgra
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
tags: | added: kubuntu |
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