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Bug 357980 - Dictionary Panel applet results window poorly sized
Dictionary Panel applet results window poorly sized
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-utils
Classification: Deprecated
Component: gdict-applet
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: gnome-utils Maintainers
gnome-utils Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-27 15:05 UTC by Vassilis Pandis
Modified: 2006-09-27 15:20 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16

Attachments
Gnome 2.16 screenshot (101.58 KB, image/png)
2006-09-27 15:06 UTC, Vassilis Pandis 		Details
Gnome 2.14 screenshot (14.88 KB, image/png)
2006-09-27 15:07 UTC, Vassilis Pandis 		Details

Description Vassilis Pandis 2006-09-27 15:05:14 UTC 
Hello,

this is a bug reported by an Ubuntu user (http://launchpad.net/bugs/59580 ):


"The results window of the gnome-dictionary panel applet is very small. It should either be sized appropriately to bound the line breaks in the content, or the content's formatting (size, word wrap) should be altered appropriately."

This was reported against Gnome 2.14 . It appears that the situation is better in 2.16 but still the window could be a bit bigger. Thanks for taking a look into this.
Comment 1 Vassilis Pandis 2006-09-27 15:06:12 UTC 
Created attachment 73499 [details]
Gnome 2.16 screenshot
Comment 2 Vassilis Pandis 2006-09-27 15:07:31 UTC 
Created attachment 73500 [details]
Gnome 2.14 screenshot
Comment 3 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2006-09-27 15:20:24 UTC 
the 2.14 behaviour was fixed in 2.16; unfortunately, for size constraints, I can't make the dialog grow past half the screen size (as you can see in the first attached screenshot).

as such, I have to mark it as WONTFIX, but if someone comes up with a better sizing algorithm taking care of the screen size constraints I'll gladly REOPEN the bug.