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Bug 105798 - Settings dialog larger than screen at big font sizes
Settings dialog larger than screen at big font sizes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gok
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
unspecified
Other opensolaris
: High major
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Assigned To: bill.haneman
bill.haneman
Depends on: 101141
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-02-11 11:10 UTC by Ralf Unger
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Ralf Unger 2003-02-11 11:10:08 UTC 
When one sets the system font size very high the settings dialog becomes
larger than the screen at some resolutions, e.g. 1024x768 and is thus
unusable. A limitation of dialog size should be introduced to fit the
dialog to the resolution.
Comment 1 David Bolter 2003-02-12 22:17:12 UTC 
Thanks for catching this Ralph.
Is this not a general problem for all applications?
What is the appropriate testbed?
Font Size: ?
Screen Res: ? x ?
Comment 2 bill.haneman 2003-02-14 16:44:42 UTC 
This fails on my 800x600 screen even at small and standard font sizes.

I hope to fix this as part of the refactor for the settings dialog in
general.

-Bill
Comment 3 bill.haneman 2003-02-14 16:45:32 UTC 
Ralph, I am sure we'd still like to hear from you about this, but I am
reopening based on my own input (800x600, 10-12 point app font).
Comment 4 Ralf Unger 2003-02-17 08:32:43 UTC 
My test environment is a 14" laptop display with 1024x768. From an
application font size of 24 points the settings dialog begins to be
unusable.
Comment 5 bill.haneman 2003-02-17 18:03:46 UTC 
I am bumping up the severity since it happens even at small font sizes
on some displays.
Comment 6 David Bolter 2003-02-27 20:36:10 UTC 
bill, i hope it is okay to give you ownership of this one, as it is
related to your dialog refactoring plans.
Comment 7 bill.haneman 2003-03-10 14:23:34 UTC 
patch to 101141 fixes this bug.
Comment 8 bill.haneman 2003-03-10 14:35:31 UTC 
BTW, there's a metacity bug that is making this worse, since you can't
move a window so that the titlebar is offscreen [#106740].
Comment 9 bill.haneman 2003-03-10 21:10:49 UTC 
making sure these bugs have PATCH keyword
Comment 10 bill.haneman 2003-04-03 14:14:26 UTC 
the patch for the settings UI helps with this bug a lot; also the
gokrc file is specifying a font size, which it should not do; that's
also making matters worse.

Permission to remove the font-size specification from gokrc?
Comment 11 David Bolter 2003-05-08 18:05:55 UTC 
Sorry I missed this Bill.  Yes please go ahead.