Comment 69 for bug 38442

I have this problem, too, in the release version of jaunty. It's most problematic on the manual partition setup step if there are more than a few partitions, such as when creating separate partitions for /, /home, /usr, etc... In my case, having six partitions vertically stretches the window to over 1000 pixels. I was able to find a workaround for this in KUBUNTU. Right click on the title bar, Advanced -> Special Window Settings. On the Geometry tab, check Size, select Apply Now and change the vertical component of the resolution to something that works on your screen. Unfortunately, the section of the window where you setup the partitions is now extremely short and barely usable and the window will reset back to the original resolution if any change is made to the partition scheme.

In my opinion we, should get rid of those colored bars for the partition usage, as they do absolutely nothing. The section that actually manipulates the partitions, sets mount points and filesystems is what is really important here.