The system settings window is a bit too small after Ubuntu's changes

Thank you for your bug report, I can confirm that here

Aurelien, Didier, should we adjust the default geometry a bit so it fits?

It's too small all along using other locales than english. bug 819994

bug #819994 is a different issue and was there before the recent changes

Attaching a screenshot with the default en_US locale and the default Ambiance theme, and the System settings window still has a scrollbar (most probably because of the icons added in Ubuntu) so the default geometry clearly needs to be adjusted.
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Or, to be smarter, the size of the rendered content could be calculated (using pango functions) and the window size adjusted accordingly.

@Robert Roth and Julien Olivier: Does the window fill your whole screen or is there still room below it?

@Aurélien Gâteau: I still have a lot of room below it, as currently it is 641 px tall, and my resolution is 1920x1080px. So to fit on a 600px high netbook screen it's already too high, so it wouldn't be any worse if it would get a bit higher to fit without a scrollbar.
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@Aurélien: There is room around it. Actually the problem is that the System Settings window uses a fixed geometry.

Thanks for the feedback. I was asking about the resolution because right now when running on a netbook-sized screen, which do not have enough space for the window, the patch maximizes the window. In this situation you get scrollbars but that cannot be avoided.

What you report is different however: when there is enough room around, System Settings indeed uses a fixed size (it was doing this before the patch as well). I thought I increased it enough but obviously it needs a few more pixels. Will look into this.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.3.5-0ubuntu2

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gnome-control-center (1:3.3.5-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/58_ubuntu_icon_views_redesign.patch:
    - updated default height to fit on screen (lp: #929585)

  [ Aurélien Gâteau ]
  * debian/patches/58_ubuntu_icon_views_redesign.patch
    - Refresh for 3.5.5
  * debian/patches/60_ubuntu_nav_bar.patch:
    - First implementation of breadcrumb buttons, without pointy arrows for
     now (lp: #933482)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:15:54 +0100

Still not good for me...

is it good if you use the Ubuntu theme? We adjusted the geometry for our theme, dynamic geometry handling is an upstream issue and is tracked in other bugs already

@seb: for the test I set my theme to Ambiance, with the Ubuntu font (at size 11), as you can see on the screenshot. Anythin else I should check?

@seb: as a side note, I wouldn't expect "dynamic geometry handling" anytime soo from upstream, judging by the harsh comments I got after my bug report regarding this issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670268

Julien, your screenshot doesn't have the overlay scrollbar to start with, could make a screenshot from a stock theme? because it works fine in a guest session here...

Seb, in my test I had set the document font to Ubuntu 11 but the default font to Cantarell 11. If i set the default font to Ubuntu 11 there is no scrollbar. So I guess this is definitely fixed for the default configuration.

Ok, good, let's keep this bug closed then, bug #936257 tracks the fixed geometry issue