[Bug 1321088] Re: Window is not resizable reducing ability to read "Details of updates" and "Technical description"

[Carey Underwood]

Maximize/restore doesn't make it resizable here.

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Title:
  Window is not resizable reducing ability to read "Details of updates"
  and "Technical description"

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  apt-cache policy update-manager
  update-manager:
    Installed: 1:0.196.12
    Candidate: 1:0.196.12
    Version table:
   *** 1:0.196.12 0
          500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:0.196.11 0
          500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

  
  When the Software Updater window came up I clicked the "Details of updates" drop down to see what was going to be installed/updated and then clicked the "Technical description" drop down to read the "Changes" tab.  However the default size for the "Software Updater" is too small to allow enough space to read these areas effectively.  I went to resize the window however it appears to not be resizable using the mouse.  I seem to remember that previous releases (not sure which/when) did allow it to be resized using the mouse.

  Of note is that you can use the window menu to choose "Resize" at
  which point you can resize the window and see far more of the content
  than before.  What is still missing though is the ability to change
  the spilt between the areas "Detail of updates" and "Technical
  description".  It appears that the areas are given a 50/50 split of
  the window.  I suspect that this may also be part of the problem.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.196.12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Aptdaemon:
   May 20 10:15:49 fuwugaha AptDaemon: INFO: Initializing daemon
   May 20 10:15:49 fuwugaha AptDaemon.PackageKit: INFO: Initializing PackageKit compat layer
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  CurrentDmesg.txt: [  124.340612] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (3353) terminated with status 1
  Date: Tue May 20 10:17:19 2014
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'484'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1400536203'
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-12 (7 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.4
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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