GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 643765
Modal dialogs from apps are not resizable
Last modified: 2011-03-16 19:23:49 UTC
Created attachment 182329 [details] screenshot of the modal dialog in file-roller problem: i am currently running gnome-shell 2.91.90 (debian experimental) on my asus eeepc 1005ha (10" screen) but when a modal dialog pops up (mostly file open dialogs etc.) they mostly exceed my screen size (only 1024x600) then i have to try to use keyboard shortcuts to get trough the dialog. (i have added a screenshot of the file-roller "select folder to extract to" dialog to show this issue, but it also happens with other software showing modal dialogs (like the firefox file-open dialog)) suggested solution: (even though i have no clue about how gnome-shell is build up, this is what i think could solve this) limit the modal dialog to fit the screen (maxheight = screenheight - height of gnome-shell bar - height of titlebar and force add a scrollbar if the dialog would exceed this size otherwise. hope this will get fixed simon
I don't think gnome-shell can do anything here. In this case it's gtk+'s file chooser who should cope with that small screen size.
Apparently gnome-shell doesn't let you resize modal dialogs. Reassigning to gnome-shell. I tried this with the Ctrl-O dialog in the following apps: Gedit - resizable EOG - resizable File roller - not resizable Firefox - not resizable Offhand I'm not sure what the difference is; I'll check file-roller's source, but the shell is definitely not letting these dialogs be resized.
File-roller does w = gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new (..., parent_window, ...); ... gtk_window_set_modal (w); gtk_widget_show (w);
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 643597 ***