webcam screen should be resized for netbooks (Eee PC, 10")

What is the actual resolution for your display?

Evan, the Eee PC 1000 comes with a 10.2-inch (259 mm) display with 1024 x 600 display.

Happens here too, with today's ISO.
My netbook is Acer Aspire One, with 10' screen and 1024x600 resolution.

The "Choose a picture" window stopped my install. No way to proceed I thought.

Do note by that time "grub" was screwed which took a scramble with a usb hard drive to get running again.

Someone on the forums said put the mouse cursor in the middle, hold down Alt, press left button and move the screen.

That worked, I was able to move the window to get to Continue.

I'd appreciate it if Continue was pre-selected so simply pushing enter would get by this troublesome screen.

For that matter, since I can change the picture with "settings" I don't see the utility of this "extra" step in install whatever.

I'd prefer install where you set up choices, when all are made, then install proceeds without this complication of every so often a new choice shows up which can clobber the install and grub if these further choices fail.

Jerry

Same problem, eeepc display 1024 x 600 but I would imagine you would have this problem on almost any netbook,

Occurs on the Dell Inspiron Mini (1024x576). This was one of the Ubuntu pre-install machines, so 576 pixels high might be worth targeting, rather than 640.

I'm bumping the priority on this to High. I suspect in addition to netbooks, any device with smaller resolution (or that is running in 1024x640 due to random graphics detection issues) is going to hit this. It sounds like Canonical will be trying to target a wider diversity of devices in the future like TVs and whatnot, which may have lower or undetected resolutions.

Guessing this should be pretty straightforward to fix, but may need design attention to re-layout the dialog. (Unless everything can just be shrunk when the screen resolution is below 800.)

Wouldn't this bug be a nice one for #hundredpapercuts?

Hi,

I have a new Monitor attached 2 my desktop PC, resolution is 1600x900. Would it be likely this could affect me too? Just to point out Desktop-PC might be affected too...

All VMware desktop products would be effected by this bug as well (Fusion, Workstation, Player, View), as the default screen size is 800x600. And we can't resize the VM at that time since tools have not been installed.

Cheers, Jakob.

Assigning to canonical-foundations as escalation based on VMWare's concerns.

I have a change to the test suite which exposes this.

Workaround, hold down Alt, drag window with left mouse button to expose bottom of window.

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.9.12

---------------
ubiquity (2.9.12) precise; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Drop backports of saved ID handling functions from os, now that we
    require Python 2.7.
  * Remove an unnecessary use of contextlib.closing.
  * Simplify PartedServer.disks.
  * Add tests for ubiquity.osextras.
  * Cope with /etc/resolv.conf being a symlink (LP: #922640).
  * Scale down the webcam page a bit so that it works on netbook screens
    (LP: #869239).
  * Improve test_pages_fit_on_a_netbook so that it tests all pages.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: choose-mirror 2.39ubuntu2,
    debian-installer-utils 1.88ubuntu2, flash-kernel 2.28ubuntu37,
    partman-base 153ubuntu1.

  [ Stéphane Graber ]
  * gtk_ui.py: Update rendering of GtkComboBox following light-themes update
    (was dark text on dark background, now light text on dark background)

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * gtk_ui.py: In only-ubiquity mode, call apport-gtk frontend ourselves after
    a crash, as there is no update-notifier running to pick it up.
    (LP: #712677)

  [ Luke Yelavich ]
  * Add label relationships in the advanced partitioning and user info steps
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:37:17 +0000