[Bug 414107] [NEW] Palimpsest GUI impossible to use on small screen

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar):

gnome-disk-utility does not fit netbook screen. the window height is
much more than 576px which basically make the app unusable on a netbook
screen. The attached patch works fine as its already working in Meego
and also its attached to the upstream bug report but there has been no
activity from the upstream developers for more than 9months.

Moreover, when the window is "maximized", it is impossible to click on
the parts of it that are visible. As the user moves the mouse and
clicks, the window position keeps changing.

Worse, the window somehow decides to maximize itself.
This prevents the possible workaround of moving it with Alt+Mouse, rendering the GUI definitely impossible to use.
(When the user selects a filesystem mounted on the top of a cryptsetup mapper, whose path /dev/mapper/........... is too long, the window pops to maximized state by itself.)

TEST CASE: start gnome disk-utility on a netbook with 600px vertical
pixels, click on the name of your hardrive. gdu window will do some
weired things as it dont fit on the screen so basically becomes
unusable.

** Affects: gnome-disk-utility
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: New

** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: New


** Tags: patch-forwarded-debian patch-forwarded-upstream
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Palimpsest GUI impossible to use on small screen
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/414107
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