[Bug 1208838] Re: partial upgrade 'details' window does not fit on 768px high screen

[Dan Taga]

> Clicking on "Details" again does not make the window any smaller
either, leaving a very large, mostly empty window.

Would like to build on what Chris said and explicitly point out that the
biggest problem with this bug is not that the window doesn't fit the
screen, it's that there's no way to recover from that. The
Upgrade/Cancel buttons can no longer be brought back into view by
undoing the action which threw them way down to begin with. So unless
you know exactly how many times to press Tab, you can't know how to
proceed.

Still affecting upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10

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Title:
  partial upgrade 'details' window does not fit on 768px high screen

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The 'partial upgrade' window (/usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/do-
  partial-upgrade --frontend=DistUpgradeViewGtk3) has a 'details' twisty
  in it. If you open the twisty you get details about packages to be
  installed/removed/upgraded. Opening the twisty makes the window
  taller; if you open the twisty on a 768px screen (like the 1366x768
  screen on my Dell XPS 13), the window is taller than the screen and
  the Cancel/Start Upgrade buttons are pushed offscreen.

  To reproduce:
  1) On a computer w/ 768px tall monitor, open the software updater
  2) Perform a dist upgrade (in my case, the updater said I can only do a partial upgrade so I chose that option)
  3) A window appears with the text, "Do you want to start the upgrade"
  4) Click the 'Details' twisty to expand it

  Expected results:
  The details twisty opens but the window remains small enough to stay onscreen

  Actual results:
  The details twisty opens and the window is resized so that it is too tall to fit onscreen

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.198
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-6.17-generic 3.10.3
  Uname: Linux 3.10.0-6-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Tue Aug  6 09:03:40 2013
  DistributionChannelDescriptor:
   # This is a distribution channel descriptor
   # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
   canonical-oem-somerville-precise-amd64-20120703-2
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-29 (249 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20120703-15:08
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-07-19 (17 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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