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since 2005??!! nice work
it was necessary to be kick out from ubuntu to be solved...
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same with ubuntu 12.10...
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See attachment (with version number); and even worse: Where's the
Maximize Button???!? Even in the Menu, Maximize is disabled. What
strange bug ist this?!? Other windows have no problem, just evolution
...
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Confirmed for netbook with 1024x600 an 12.04.
Evolution worked fine in 11.10 for me which makes it quite unpleasant that it's
back again :-/
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Yep, confimed. Every time I am hoping to see a scrollbar added... Yes, I know
default MUA is now Thunderbird (so that you don't have shared calendar
working). But TB as even worst problems... try bug#151162 for example (5 years
old only).
How can we have a real desktop revolution without a sane
Bug still present in 12.04 LTS.
I noticed that maximizing the program window is not possible. Dragging
it to the screen's upper corner does not work. Right-clicking on the
window title shows "Maximize window" disabled.
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...and TB could be the default, but it has a similar "ages"-old bug
about drag and drop attachment (never worked, still not working) and is
unable to read MBOX directories --- so it's not (still) a useful
substitute for me.
This bug has more or less the same age than my daughter. Maybe it'll be
fi
It still does not fit on an 1024x768 screen on my ThinkPad X60s laptop
running Ubuntu 11.10 and Evolution 3.2.2. Still NOT fixed.
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@Fabio: I still cannot see the bottom of the configuration windows
(accounts, receiving options, etc) y my 1024x600 netbook. The only way
to solve this is to add scrollbars to these windows, and not create
windows taller then (y_screen_size - whatever header and titlebar size).
So no, clearly not
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> I cannot reproduce this on my system, can we cansider it fixed ?
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Yeh! Why not?
Thunderbirds the default now anyway ;)
[My opinion on it not showing
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10.04 LTS Is affected, as was 8.04 LTS before it. Telling me to upgrade my
users (only 400 of them left on Ubuntu now, directly due to this bug) to a new
mail client or OS version 16 months into a "supported" run of 3 years is
tantamount to abandoning us.
If I'm going to upgrade the company-wi
>From Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10) onwards Thunderbird is the default mailer.
So there is for most people no reason to switch to Evolution anymore.
And this should not have been a reason to not get use to Ubuntu since
Thunderbird can be installed any time with 2 clicks from the Software-
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I also deal with this bug every single day. I am shocked to see that
this bug has been out there for over 5 years. I would love to fully
switch to Ubuntu and Evolution in my home but there is no way my wife
and children could understand how to use it with this bug. It is so bad
on my system that
Advising people to use --express is nonsense because this leaves you
with a mail client and without calendar.
I just switched to Thunderbird with Lightning. Bug fixed.
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Well, even if I agree that the bug is long-standing and is annoying,
let's try not to be tragic. I use evolution on a 1024x768 netbook, so
the title ("unusable") is not totally correct --- keep in mind the two
workarounds:
- in the mail configuration window, you can use alt+mouse to move the windo
As Evolution is [currently] the default mail client in Ubuntu ~& most
people using netbooks expect easy access to email... should this bug not
be elevated to CRITICAL? Critical not as in security etc. but CRITICAL
as in this is affecting the public perception of Ubuntu, Canonical and
all of us con
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BTW, this is NOT just Evolution that has this problem. Other windows
also have this issue as well. Despite being intended for netbooks, Unity
pays little attention to the wide variety of screen sizes, in particular
short screens.
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and for all those who say you should use evolution --express with a netbook (ok
more people in the upstream bug say this)
The preferances window for that has the same blinking problem!
how hard is it to add a scroll bar to the window?
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This one is nasty. I mean, Evolution is the DEFAULT mail client in
ubuntu, and unity is designed for netbooks. so one of the first things a
normal user does on a fresh system - configuring the mail client - is
going horribly wrong.
so +1 for raising the importance to "high".
i mean, 5 years, 26 d
It doesn't work on my netbook Acer AOD260 10" too on Ubuntu Netbook Edition
11.04. My resolution is 1024x600. The main window's lenght is too large and so
the preferences window's height. If there was only a possibility of resizing
the main window in the vertical position. I know, that the left
A 5 years-old usability bug affecting 43 (known) people which importance
is just "raised to medium" now... Are u serious ?
Going as is goes, it will be raised to "should be considered like
deserving some kind of fix" ten years from now ?
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Raising the importance to Medium, because of the quantity of users
affected.
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I'd love to switch to TB, if only it could manage receiving mail in a
local directory full of mboxes (feeded by an external, async procmail
script). Unfortunately, it seems that evolution is the only MUA able to
do this (so sometime I understand why people like Linus still use pine
or mutt).
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I think Canonical "fixed" this problem in Ubuntu by deciding to move to
Thunderbird in 11.10.
That's fine by me, I moved to T-bird a while ago, after observing the
Evolution developers' response to a number of bugs. They have a peculiar
design philosophy which does not permit much flexibility, and
1024 x 768 isn't enough. A lot of netbooks and tablets are 1024 x 600.
The point is, do NOT design it to work only above a minimum size. It
should automatically add scrollbars (or be resizable from any corner)
when it's below a certain size so you can still view all content and
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Could you please reconsider this bug's importance being only "medium"?
After all, it renders Ubuntu's flagship e-mail and calendar application
useless and forces people to stick to 10.04 LTS.
IMHO all applications MUST work with 1024x768. This is a common display
resolution on older laptops.
Chee
I suffer the same problem on my dell inspirion1012 since I've installed
Ubuntu 11.04. I had no problem while using 10.10.
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Facing this problem on a 1366x768 screen on my laptop. Using 11.04
final.
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Still not fixed on Natty beta 2 on a 1024 x 600 screen. The calendar
screen cannot be made to fit entirely on the screen, making the
application unusable on a netbook. I cannot believe this is such a
complicated problem that it could not be fixed in 5 years.
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Simple update to PT language, and the problem is back...
Compare Screenshot5 with Screenshot1 and see what I mean.
Regards
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Raquel,
Thanks, but I know it (as I said: unless you do the meta-mouse
movement... which means exactly what you said, with the difference that
I have my meta- key mapped to windows key because I use alt- in jed and
emacs). iT is cited in various comments, for example #46.
And as a workarou
Hi Romano, try this:
Use the touchpad to get the hand cursor and push alt at the same time. You
will be able to get there.
Raquel
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Romano Giannetti wrote:
> This is my screenshot on my laptop. As you can see, quite a lot is
> unreacheable (unless you do the meta-
This is my screenshot on my laptop. As you can see, quite a lot is unreacheable
(unless you do the meta-mouse movement, obviously). (Screenshot5 attached)
A scrollbar is badly needed.
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As far as I know, “evolution --express”, doest not run the calendar.
Only “evolution”…see Screenshot1.png
Now Screenshot4.png:
Is this you asked? I can imagine it won’t fit in a 600 screen, but only in 768
(my case)
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Looking at Screenshot3:
1) where is the calendar?
and
2) the main window is not a problem, if you do not show the icons. The
problem is the mail configuration window, which do not fit in 600 pixel
and has not a scrollbar. Show it with edit -> preferences -> mail
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Hmmm... again, did the --express mode support calendaring? I was unable
to find it, and without it, I am more prone to switch back to mutt or
pine :-).
Nevertheless, I think this is all a bit overstretched. It would be just
- add a scrollbar to the only dialog in all the interface that do not hav
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I see you're not using the unity interface. I wonder if that makes a
difference.
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Full size, stays inside the main window.
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It's re-sizable from all 4 corners.
Can only try it in 1024x768 and 600x480 (no good here...)
Maybe because this is just a beta (UBU 11.04) all is in English. My
first test (UBU 10.10) where I had the problem was in PT language...
Take a look at the screen images.
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José Marques - is it re-sizable from the top corner? Does it work in
1024x600?
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Works perfect in Ubuntu 11.04
Tested inside VBOX / Laptop 1024x768
It's BETA, so a few other stuff still not 100%
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Using VBOX for testing - Laptop 1024x768
Cannot "shrink it" at all here with ubuntu, but it works fine in kubuntu.
Does this help finding a solution?
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I don't understand everyone's solutions here. The solution is NOT to set
the size to XXX height, but to have the program query for the screen
size and then choose a height based on that. My screen (a netbook) is
only 600 pixels tall. But there may be others with even smaller screens,
or others that
Putting in a nudge here as Evolution is incredibly difficult to setup
and configure on a netbook. Given the amount of whitespace in the setup
and Preferences GUI, this is infuriating.
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I assume the --express mode is related to http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/evolution-express-for-
meego.html">this meego project. which describes the calendar being
split off and run as a separate program, perhaps the same in Ubuntu? I'm
finding it hard to figure out what the Ubuntu devs have
I agree that all of us should remember that most work here is done by
volunteering time. So please all, keep the temple.
@Marcel: I do not think that --express solves the problem. I tried it,
and the preference dialog still goes out of the screen. Moreover, maybe
I am dense, but I can't find a way
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There also seems to be some confusion about the scope of this bug: This
bug (and
P.S, said script for 'Toggle-Zoom' can be found here:-
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YET
You cannot use Evolution setup OR Calendar on a net-book with 1024x600
resolution! The calendar wants full screen size not taking in to account
minus 22 pixels per panel.
The only way around i
Marvin your solution comes very close for me. On my netbook with
1024x600 (like most netbooks), I'm using 8pt fonts instead of the Ubuntu
default, the smaller fonts + your mail-config.ui means that without any
panels the settings window fits the screen. In my normal setup where I
have a top panel a
I just checked the height of my modified window. It's 740 pixel.
Assuming the default height of 24 pixels for the top and bottom gnome-
panels that makes: 740 + 2*24 = 784. So unfortunately still 16 pixels
too much to fit on a screen with height of 768 pixels :(
But please give me feedback on my p
Okay here is a simple modification that makes the preferences window
smaller. You can even try it without having to recompile evolution. What
I did is the following: In the "Mail Preferences" part I added a new tab
named "Display" from the "General" tab I then moved the "Message Fonts"
part and "Me
Here's the screen grab showing the main window with switcher off and
plenty of room to spare.
Just my personal opinion but it seems ludicrous to make this program the
default on the netbook edition and to prominently promote it in the
Ubuntu advertising alongside language like "an innovative user
Another workaround to add to the suggestions above, this one is for the
main window, if you turn off the "switcher" by going to View->Switcher
Appearance->Show Buttons then the main window becomes sensibly
resizable. I have no idea why turning off five small icons makes such a
big difference to the
This bug has also been reported on GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 267787.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267787
Bug 267787 was opened on 7th October 2004.
Still no solution, or sign of one likely to happen in the near future.
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Well, the workaround is easy, but if i'm a normal user not necessarily i've to
know that i've to press Alt + mouse to move a window over the desktop limit, so
i cannot configure evolution because the forward button is below the lower
desktop limit.
I think that this is a serious usability
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I also would like to make a suggestion that could serve as a nice fix
until the Evolution developers come up with a solution. This fix would
require only adding a few lines of code:
Go to the piece of code that creates the preferences window. Now add
there code that creates a GtkScrolledWindow and
Leo I understand your arguments that Ubuntu does not maintain Evolution
but distributes it. However Evolution is the default mail client
(including calendar manager/address book/etc.) of Ubuntu. Since such
kind of application is used a lot it has a higher responsibility for
the user experience. Ot
Screenshot showing Evolution 2.30.3 Preferences Window Not Fitting Screen on
1366x768 screen
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HI,
same here with netbook 1024*600 (workaround possible with "newres"
script using "xrandr") :(
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same problem on 1366x768!
starting evolution in a terminal shows the following message:
"(evolution:27609): e-utils-WARNING **: Something called
e_alert_dialog_constructed() with a NULL parent window. This is no longer
legal, please fix it.
EI: MAIL PREFS"
I don't know if this message is of an
This is low priority from the point of view of Ububtu, which distributes
Linux+GNU+a bunch o free software all together.
I understand it has low priority as it is not affecting other
applications nor blocking the use of the computer.
I agree it should be very very high priority for those who re
I don't understand either why the priority of this bug is that low. Is
it because the bug does not cause any crash or unexpected behaviour? Is
that the policy or what else is the reason?
I think this is A BUG IN USABILITY, that affects many users. There are
still many people with a vertical resolu
Having this problem too. Come on, five god damned years, a crippling
issue, people are having major problems with it, and it's still low
priority to fix? This is a major usability flaw that makes the program
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This is getting worst. I am on a netbook, 1024x600, and now even mail is
difficult to read. If I switch from the main view to the calendar view,
the main windows grows in vertical, and after that I can't reduce it
back to fit in the 600-panel height of the screen. Not even to the full
600 pixels.
Still a problem on my 1024*768 Panasonic CF-W5.
I managed to use the preference pane somehow, but now when I maximize
the application window, a little space get cut off at the left side (see
attached screenshot), because it seems to align itself to the right. Now
when I try to click something, it
I have the same issue on the main screen. I am using a Dell laptop (old)
with a maximum resolution of 1024*768.
THe main windows is larger than the screen, making the window moving
right and left when trying to point on a tab.
THis bug appeared with the maverick update. THis is very annoying.
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Sorry but ubuntu netbook edition is with this big mistake not a option.
You can use other Disp. Why they bring out a ubuntu netbook edition with
this mistake that the resolution of a system intregation programm is to
big, sorry but thats not a Netbook edition :-) Meego, Joilcloud, ect
other options
Why hasn't this been fixed yet? Major usability issue on netbooks FOR
FIVE YEARS?!
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In my case, on 1024*768 screen resolution, the preferences window is too
high, so I cannot see the button at the bottom. Since the preferences
window cannot be resized, I can only press tab until I think it is
selected and press enter... not at all a good user experience.
Just to be clear - is thi
The preoblem seems to remain in maverik using the calendar section: it's
impossible to use it on a small (netbook) screen (i use evolution
maximized without borders, statusbar and with a gnome panel of 19 px,
and this is not enought).
I think this issue should be fixed: it's useless to develop a n
On Ubuntu Maverick it is again the problem that Evolution is wider than
the screen and hops with every click from left to right.
Interesting though, with Gnome-Shell it works just fine.
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You open Evolution (on the Netbook Edition) and the Window is to big in
the width not in the height. To change it you can only change the height
not the width. The interessting part is in the programm window self you
can change only the height. I mean with this the fragmentation in
Evolution self.
Same problem.
Preferences dialog out of screen 1024x768.
Screenshot.
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now in Maverick the evolution preferences window in version 2.30.3 has a
minimum size of around 690x780, thus quite a bit taller than a 768 high
window with panels top and bottom. The reason seems to be the amount of
content on the mail preferences-general tab. This pushes the size of the
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