GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 127379
Preferences dialog unusable on 640x480 display
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:13:12 UTC
On smaller displays (such as a 640x480 one, which is all i had when one of our 17inches broke), the preferences dialog is largely off the top and bottom of the screen, making it unusable.
Still a problem, but I'd expect a problem with lots of other prefs dialogs in GNOME as well.
Added usability keyword, so that UI people see it, in case they are interested.
Paradoxically this is more of an issue now because of newer hardware: Netbooks. The dialog is also too tall for my Acer Aspire One's 1024x600 display. The display aside, many Netbooks have quite a powerful specification so there shouldn't be a need to use a cut-down version of Linux on them and it would be a good idea for developers to test their dialogs in low resolutions. The Views tab is the one that forces Nautilus' Preferences dialog to be so big; the rest are OK at 800x600, but Views would also need redesigning to fit in 480 lines.
This is certainly an issue for me - using a Samsung N140 (1024x600 screen). I'm using Fedora 11 - there's no need for a cutdown version of Linux on this machine. I don't think redesigning it to yet another fixed height would be the solution though - what happens when something has a 300px high display?
The XFCE4 developers have fixed a similar issue in xfwm4's preferences dialog by adding a scrollable viewport. See <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5583>.
*** Bug 600568 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 604763 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug has opened in The Ubuntu bug tracker. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/538327 Here is a screen shot illustrating the problem http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40893793/nautilus_preferences_too_big.JPG
*** Bug 651442 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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