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

[Leo]

Wow, now at least I can use it. That changes my life.

Thanks!!!

Still there is something that could easily be improved:
When I select a filesystem mounted on the top of a luks-mapped device, since the device name is like 10 times bigger than /dev/sdc2, it makes the second column far too wide. The problem is that the first column automatically gets the same width, which is pointless. See attached screenshot.

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Palimpsest GUI impossible to use on small screen
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Status in gnome-disk-utility: Fix Released
Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “gnome-disk-utility” source package in Maverick: Fix Released
Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Debian: New

Bug description:
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.