Ubuntu
ubiquity package

installer dialogue buttons fall off bottom of the screen on netbooks with small displays

Bug #837406 reported by Colin Ian King
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Evan
Oneiric
Fix Released
High
Evan

Bug Description

ISO testing: Installing http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110830/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso

Following desktop install instructions on ISO testing http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopWhole

Machine: HP Mini

On a display with resolution 1024x580 quite a few of the installer dialogue boxes are taller then the screen and hence the buttons fall off the bottom of the screen. One has to use Alt-left button to move the diialogue up the screen to be able to access the buttons. This was not a problem with Natty.

This makes the system un-installable to novice users who don't know how to use the Alt-left button to drag the installer dialogues around the screen.

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Colin Ian King (colin-king)
description: updated
description: updated
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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

Also tested with ISO image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110831/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso and get same issue on small screen devices

Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Installer Team (ubuntu-installer)
Evan (ev)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: Ubuntu Installer Team (ubuntu-installer) → Evan Dandrea (ev)
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Evan (ev) wrote :

This is due to the prepare page causing the installer window to grow to 596 pixels tall.

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Evan (ev) wrote :

Something else is going on here, possibly at the GTK level. I've set every container element and label to expand=false and it's still not shrinking. Unfortunately, glade is broken for PyGI UIs at the moment, so this is hard to visualize. I'm going to hack up the code to try to get a better idea of whether or not the new natural sizing in GTK is breaking.

Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)
tags: added: rls-mgr-o-tracking
Evan (ev)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Colin Ian King (colin-king) wrote :

Thanks Evan!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.7.30

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ubiquity (2.7.30) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Harald Sitter ]
  * [KDE] Fix language selection comobox position within grid (LP: #743062)
  * [KDE] Make intro label miminum expanding, otherwise word wrap will not
    work for vast amounts of text

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Unset UBUNTU_MENUPROXY so our custom panel doesn't lose its
    indicators (LP: #837287).
  * Port the panel to GTK3.
  * Manually connect the activate-link signal on the advanced
    partitioning tool link on the automatic partitioning page.
    GtkBuilder signal mapping appears to be broken (LP: #852054).
  * The first partitioning page does not translate its options ahead of
    time, so ensure that the placeholder text isn't so long as to create
    the installer window to grow excessively large before partitioning
    is reached (LP: #837406).
  * Use the new network-manager interface on the prepare page to disable
    options that need an Internet connection when one is not available
    (LP: #848938).
  * Update translations from Launchpad.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: flash-kernel
    2.28ubuntu33.

  [ Stéphane Graber ]
  * Change wallpaper C program to accept a path to a wallpaper as a parameter.
  * Update ubiquity-dm to set the right wallpaper for Edubuntu.
  * Fix ibus in Ubiquity (LP: #838850)

  [ Aurélien Gâteau ]
  * gui/qt/stepKeyboardConf.ui
   - Put keyboard variable combobox on separate line (LP: #851160)

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * kde_ui.py
   - Fix breakage in debfilter crash dialogue
 -- Evan Dandrea <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:37:28 +0100

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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