GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 712260
Cannot fit window contents on screen.
Last modified: 2013-11-26 18:58:37 UTC
There is a slight problem with design of the application window. I believe there may be a minimum height set. The Tweak Tool does not fit on netbook displays. Of course, <super>+move is a workaround. I just thought this may be worth mentioning as a minor detail that could be smoothed out.
Please provide the pixel height of your screen.
1024x600 -Samsung N120 -Lenovo Ideapad S10-3T -HP mini -Sony Vaio All netbooks. Tweak-tool isn't used by the students, so it's not a crippling problem. Just an observation.
Same situation here with my netbook (HP Compaq Mini CQ10, 10.1", 1024x600) on Debian testing (now Jessie) and GNOME 3.8. GNOME3 simply does not fit in my screen, I cannot even change the desktop background (see attached image), the environment is pretty useless right now.
Created attachment 262886 [details] GNOME3 does not fit in my netbook screen
This can be fixed if you change the requested height in the tweakview.py file, line 49: self._main_window.set_size_request(740, 636) To something like: self._main_window.set_size_request(740, 436) But ideally, the user should be able to just resize the window, there's no reason to keep it fixed.
> But ideally, the user should be able to just resize the window, there's no > reason to keep it fixed. Not true. Anyway, duplicate and fixed. It is resiable in master. Debian can pick the patch if they want, or you are welcome to pick the best arbitrary fixed size for all computers and submit that patch to Debian. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 704149 ***
John, this problem is also present in several places in GNOME3 windows, not just gnome-tweak-tool. Does the patch fix all the window size issues?
(In reply to comment #7) > John, this problem is also present in several places in GNOME3 windows, not > just gnome-tweak-tool. Does the patch fix all the window size issues? Nope. Please re-open specific bugs against specific products, or you might want to talk to the designers on #gnome-design.
This a global issue affecting more than one package so GNOME design team should be the place to go because opening a bug report for every single package that shows the same problem will take me a life :-)
Bugs in a specific codebase of a project need to be filed against that specific project in Bugzilla. Drop a list here (with steps to reproduc for each one), if it takes you too much time. And no, the user should not be able to just resize the window, instead the application should never require to be resized. But this is offtopic for this specific bug report for this specific application, as it is a meta-topic.