[Bug 663457] Re: DistUpgraders output window should be resizable and initial size should fit the screen

[Olivier Mengué]

This is a major usability issue for the upgrade that has still not been
addressed after at least 3 releases.

Here are some details of the pain:
- I can not see the complete list of packages that will be installed/upgraded/deleted: the bottom of the window is out of the screen
- Once I have access to that list, I can not view the action buttons under it to either accept or decline the upgrade. I can not access them with the mouse, and I have to blindly navigate the controls with the tab key.
- I can not view the bottom of the terminal window during the upgrade
- If I remember well I also had problem with the windows that asked me about config files upgrade

My netbook is an Asus Eee Pc 1005HA. Screen size is 1024 x 600 pixels.

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Title:
  DistUpgraders output window should be resizable and initial size
  should fit the screen

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Hi,
  I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 on my netbook.

  Due to the screen resolution I wasn't able to open the detail window
  (terminal view during) updates, because the action buttons /cancel,
  continue/ are missing.

  The window should adapt its height according to the screen resolution
  - maybe scrollbars can be added to the whole window/panel that
  contains the 'details'-window.

  As a workaround I closed the terminal view and used alt+mouse to move
  the window out of screen to reach the action buttons. This is
  impossible if a modal dialogue appears during updates.

  Due to the fact that 10.10 aims at netbooks this behaviour were a
  great ease for update-manager (especially if things go wrong during
  system updates and configs need to be merged a.s.o.)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: update-manager 1:0.142.20
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: d7d9b16e9b357bb24336acc7d752d6c5
  CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
  Date: Tue Oct 19 20:58:42 2010
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager

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