Efficient use of screen is very poor when small

Bug #221594 reported by Deepinthekernel
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Gnome System Monitor
Expired
Low
gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

I have my screen resolution set at 1680x1050. The smallest I can make this app is that it still occupies about 1/6 of the screen area. This is really bad use of space - an app like this should be able to operate even when its window is taken down to the size of a postage stamp.

Not only that, but when operating at its smallest size, - it shows 3 graphs, the height of the graphs is in total less than 20% of the window height, the rest is just wasted space.

The important things in the voids between the graphs, such as the key and the scales, should plip out of existance when the graph gets below a certain size.

When the graph is bigger, these problems are mitigated somewhat.

Ubuntu 8.04.
gnome-system-monitor

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 25 00:59:36 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.22.0-1ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
Uname: Linux 2.6.20-15-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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Deepinthekernel (mark-winder4) wrote :
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Felipe Gonzalez (felipexgonzalez) wrote :

This makes "Resources" almost useless for me. About 10% of the window is used for data. As described above, the rest is 10 numbers, huge icons, a couple of chartoons (for memory use) and a lot wasted space.

Attached is an example.

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Deepinthekernel (mark-winder4) wrote :

Felipe, this is exactly what I am talking about. Your attachment shows it admirably.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531097

Changed in gnome-system-monitor:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-system-monitor:
status: Unknown → New
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Jeffrey Smith (horusofoz) wrote :

Not sure if this is the correct spot to report this but didn't want to open a new bug report if it wasn't required.

I'm running UNE 10.04 on a EeePC 701SD 8G. Screen size is 7 inches with a resolution of 800 x 480.

The System Monitor window does not fit on the screen and as a result the bottom part of the window is cut off.

Changed in gnome-system-monitor:
importance: Unknown → Low
Changed in gnome-system-monitor:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-system-monitor:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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Deepinthekernel (mark-winder4) wrote :

I opened this bug many years ago. Nobody did anything about it in spite of many people agreeing with me.

To be honest I would not bother these days, there is too many major things wrong with Ubuntu to bother about trivial but obvious things. Things that affect the on-the-ground user.

Back to this bug, this is the result of poor design and faulty design theory, its wilful not accidental. It ought to be obvious to the designer once pointed out, the same way it is to everyone else.

And yet we wait many years until the bug expires, and call that fixed.

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