Fail to expand dialog box

[dino99]

i only get a one line displayed into a very narrow scrolling box; for example when i want to choose something with winetricks.
It seems not having any dconf settings by the way to fix that.

The found workaround is to :
- edit "/usr/share/zenity/zenity.ui"
- and add on the line 1024 : <property name="expand">True</property>

After saving that tweak, winetricks dialog box display as expected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: zenity 3.8.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-6.13-generic 3.9.6
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-6-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 18 11:29:58 2013
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: zenity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Arx Cruz (arxcruz)]

Hi,

It's fixed on master.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/zenity/commit/?id=80bc8ce643979fec201c4ebd5cd6405b6310357f

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[rami (lehtinen-rami)]

Same problem with ubuntu 14.04, zenity version 3.8.0-1
adding line as showed in "Arx Cruz" post works.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Confirm this problem with Trusty (zenity 3.8.0-1)

----> sudo gedit /usr/share/zenity/zenity.ui

had to add the required property at line 1025 : <property name="expand">True</property>
(inside the block: <object class="GtkScrolledWindow" id="zenity_tree_window"> )

[dino99 (9d9)]

Other people have also reported that issue against winetricks ( https://code.google.com/p/winetricks/issues/detail?id=393 )

As that issue is only met when using winetricks (never got it with other apps), i suppose that zenity cant be blamed, and winetricks have to find a solution to display/expand its own dialog list.

[rami (lehtinen-rami)]

I got this problem with my own made script

#!/bin/bash
#script to change and observe firewall settings
file=$(zenity --width=360 --height=320 --list --title "Firewall settings" --text "Choose one..." --column Options "VPN firewall" "Whitout VPN" "All Open" "Check firewall status")
....

and with a python script that also uses zenity

those both scripts using zenity are working with ubuntu 12.04 (zenity 3.4.0-0ubuntu4) and 13.04(dont know zenity version)

[arm-c (arickmcniel)]

Using Ubuntu 14.04 Beta 2

This is a REAL issues that will effect multiple users. (See Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zenity/+bug/1192101?comments=all where a user suggests a fix.)

I encountered as an issue while trying to configure my input (keyboard) to support using Hangul (Korean) using im-config. Fortunately, I noticed there was an option to run in concole (im-config -c) so I was able to notice the option that I needed to select.

Any individual needing to configure Ubuntu to use a CJK language (possibly more) and any users requiring access to zenity based prompts are likely to have this issue. Ubuntu is supposed to be easy for newBs... this makes it unnecissarily difficult and makes Ubuntu look un-polished. (BTW, very impressed with direction Unity / Ubuntu are taking in 14.04)