sticky notes applet need a scrollbar

Thanks for your bug. It was already reported upstream:
http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121883

As long as upstream is working on this (and they, too, suggested the scrollbar),
you can workaround this by holding the alt key and moving with the left mouse
key and resizing with the middle mouse key.

This bug is more than 5 years old. It is a major nuisance for many people, but probably not that difficult to fix.

How can we interest a developer to have a go at it? Is there any hope?

Hey guys.
I just added the patch to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121883 but since I downloaded the source using APT I'm also adding it here :)

Please comment or inform me of the correct way of doing this, cause I would like to get some form of credit, since I'm going to make many more patches in the near future ;o)

you can subscribe ubuntu-main-sponsors to the bug for review or wait on upstream comments, for upstream changes it's usually a good idea to wait for upstream comments before asking to packagers to ship the change

the bug has been fixed upstream now

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-applets - 2.27.2-0ubuntu1

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gnome-applets (2.27.2-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version (LP: #379999).
    - Accessibility Applet:
      + Show the correct icon (Callum McKenzie).
    - Drivemount Applet:
      + Behave sensibly on gconf corruption or missing icons (Callum McKenzie).
    - Null Applet:
      + Remove debugging code (Callum McKenzie).
      + Mark the applet names for translation.
    - Stickynotes Applet:
      + Add scrollbars if the note gets too large for the screen (Dennis Hilmar).
        Closes LP: #22304.
    - Weather Applet:
      + Protect against crashes when the locations file is missing (Callum
        McKenzie).
    - Mixer Applet:
      + Make the up and down keys (and mouse scroll wheel) work
        correctly for the dock slider, despite what GTK thinks
        (Callum McKenzie, LP: #335333).
      + Fix a reference couting bug that would cause crashes at
        exit (Callum McKenzie).
      + Make the dock window multihead aware (Matt Keenan).
    - General:
      + Added a DOAP file for the project.
      + Trigger timeouts at second boundaries for efficiency (gQuigs).
      + Uneeded duplicate images removed from the documentation translations.
      + Make translations easier by removing unnecessary markup
        from GtkBuilder .ui files (Callum McKenzie)
      + Remove .glade files now that glade can edit the .ui files directly.
  * Rebase on Debian Unstable.
    - debian/control{.in}:
      + Don't build with libcpufreq-dev, type-handling,
        system-tools-backends-dev, libgnome2-dev or libgnomeui-dev.
      + Build-depends on network-manager-dev.
      + Build-depend on libgucharmap-dev rather than libgucharmap2-dev. The
        latter only exists in Debian.
      + Add Vcs-Bzr URL info.
      + gnome-applets, gnome-applets-data and gnome-applets-dbg pre-depends on
        dpkg (>= 1.10.24).
      + gnome-applets suggests gnome-netstatus-applet, deskbar-applet and
        cpufrequtils rather than recommends.
    - debian/gnome-applet.manpages:
      + Don't install mini_commander_applet manpage since the binary
        is not installed.
    - debian/patches/02_selector_crash.patch:
      + Dropped, fixed upstream.
    - debian/patches/09_modemlights_use_new_gst.patch:
      + Update to apply cleanly with new version.
    - debian/patches/13_battstat_measuring_more_appropriate.patch:
      + Workaround an ACPI bug.
    - debian/patches/14_battstat_enable_pmi.patch:
      + Use the pmi interface to know if suspend is available.
    - debian/patches/80_correct_minicommander_install.patch:
      + Don't install the minicommander server when not required.
    - debian/patches/98_autoreconf.patch:
      + Updated for new version.
    - debian/rules:
      + Build the mixer applet.
      + DEB_DH_BUILDDEB_ARGS := -- -Zbzip2
    - debian/watch:
      + Watch unstable series.

 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Tue, 26 May 2009 17:44:06 +0100