Dialogs too big for screen size, can't reach all options

You're running VLC on XP or Ubuntu?!

Hello,

Thank you for your reply to my request.

>You're running VLC on XP or Ubuntu?!

>>>I just bought an ASUS EeePC 1000 (10.2") netbook running XP Home.

XP Home, as stated in report.. I am now using 0.9.8a with same difficulty.

The ASUS EeePC has a maximum stable desktop screen resolution of 1024 x 600.
It can be adjusted to 1024 x 768, but the desktop is no longer stable, it
now has a vertical scrollbar and must be scrolled up and down to reach all
areas. This is not a very user friendly desktop mode :-/

However, I discovered that even 1024 x 768 is not 'tall enough' for some
non-scrolling VLC dialog boxes. They extend underneath the Windows status
bar, and the "OK", "cancel", etc. buttons can't be clicked unless the
Windows status bar is first hidden or moved out of the way.

This is on any PC I have, not just the ASUS Eee PC.

It would be very helpful and friendly, if all VLC dialog boxes could be
resizeable at least down to 1024x600, and vertically scrollable as
necessary, so every option can be reached on smaller screens.

Thank you for your consideration of this useability feature idea.

Best regards,
Sue Morton

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:53 AM
Subject: [Bug 304265] Re: Dialogs too big for screen size,can't reach all
options

You're running VLC on XP or Ubuntu?!

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Dialogs too big for screen size, can't reach all options
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Status in VLC media player: New
Status in “vlc” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: vlc

Using VLC 0.9.7.

I just bought an ASUS EeePC 1000 (10.2") netbook running XP Home.

Many dialog boxes in VLC are too "tall" (vertical size) for this netbook's
maximum screen resolution. These dialog boxes are not scrollable, so I
cannot reach the bottom area and am unable to save my entries as a result.

Since these little netbooks are becoming more and more popular, I wish to
report this as a "bug" and request the changing of all dialogs to be
vertically scrollable in VLC.

Thanks and regards,
--appyface

it's the same for me on ubuntu
with jaunty

Yep, same here on Jaunty. Though I've had this problem since back with 6.04 and not just with VLC. I don't recall the other apps that have this problem, but man is it frustrating. I'm not sure if it is an error on the app's part for not letting the OS manage the dialogue box, or else Ubuntu is not dynamically sizing or scrolling the box to match the user's screen resolution settings. Since apps like Control Panel scroll properly, I'm going to guess it's the fault of VLC and other apps for setting a fixed dialogue box size and not letting Ubuntu manage it.

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 1.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1

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vlc (1.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
  * tighten build-dependencies on libschroedinger-dev, fixes FTBFS.
  * Following bugs have an associated and now closed upstream ticket in
    Launchpad: LP: #281295, #73449, #282567, #117640, #172938, #260918,
    #273685, #275043, #277834, #282394, #290753, #294136, #298925, #304265,
    #309728, #311742, #314038

vlc (1.0.0~rc2-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New Upstream Release Candidate
    + Closes: #527010, #491441, #508618, #522824
  * Delete patches which were picked from upstream
  * Refresh patches
  * Remove vlc-plugin-esd and vlc-plugin-arts as they have been removed
    by upstream
  * SONAME change for libvlccore
  * Add new symbols for libvlc2
  * Fix static libs compile
  * Use vlc-wrapper manpage from upstream
  * vlc.install: add drawable and screen was renamed x11_screen
  * vlc-nox.install: Add and remove modules added/removed upstream
  * Point out in NEWS the modules renamed or splited
  * Add links to upstream NEWS and co in vlc-nox
  * Version the depedency of libvlcore2 on vlc-data
  * Remove unnecessary "Section:" in debian/control

vlc (0.9.9a-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Correct typo in 0.9.9a-2 changelog entry
  * Disable more optimization with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt
  * Cache the configure test results as we're running configure several
    times
  * Fix building as root
  * Fix the clean target
  * Remove unexistant config options
  * Better check commad line
  * Use all the procs on i386 and amd64
  * Build a version of libvlccore without altivec (Closes: #523035)
  * Fix typo (thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso)(Closes: #528044)
  * Reword the command line to get full logs in bug/presubj (Closes: #527012)
  * Remove duplicate "extended Settings" entry in context menu
   (Closes: #526603) - thanks to Matt Kraai

 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:28:15 +0200