By the way, I think this qualifies as a regression. I experience this problem on a clean Ubuntu 8.10 install.
In the mean while, people are making a huge fuss about this at http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7r9dg/what_use_is_a_file_chooser_dialogue_when_the_area/ This Reddit post attracted *329* comments, 90% of them negative comments against GTK. -- GtkFileChooser dialog size randomly broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285285 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs