GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 352922
gedit file dialog is unusably small by default
Last modified: 2009-01-10 13:47:34 UTC
When I choose to open a file in gedit, it allocates enough room to display about 3.5 items. I can resize this dialog, but the size is lost as soon as it's closed, leading me to resize it every time I want to open a file, which is quite annoying. Screenshot attached of how the file dialog appears to me and how I think it'd be nice to appear. If the default size isn't changed, it'd at least be a good idea to save whatever size the user last resized to (and perhaps this should be done in addition to changing the default size).
Created attachment 71633 [details] How the file dialog looks by default
Created attachment 71634 [details] How it would be nice to look
are you on Fedora? They have a patch which fiddles with filechooser size... On my default install the size is reasonable (it allows to see 7 items), it would be cool to display a bit more but the dialog should keep a 4:3 form factor.
I'm on Ubuntu - Why should the file dialog maintain a 4:3 ratio if there's more information vertically than horizontally?
well, fact is we don't do anything about filechooser size, that's the size gtk chooses by itself...
This is really gtk's fault, no point keeping this bug open forever. I am closing it as INVALID instead of duplicate, because I think this particular issue has beed somewhat fixed in gtk and I can't find the bugreport, but gtk filechooser sizing still suffers from bugs, e.g. bug #549403