Description of problem: The Details section in the updates program for gnome is too small. Could you please make it resizable and remember the size? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.2.1 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run gnome-packagekit 2. Read details about updates Actual results: Details section can't be resized and typically too small to show full details about update. Expected results: Should be able to resize the size of the Details. Additional info: This is a regression compared to F15.
Same here. This is very annoying.
it is still annoying as of gnome-packagekit-3.4.0-1.fc17.x86_64 ;')
I like going through the details section of every package I update to get an idea of what the update does. This problem with the details section makes this much harder to do and I end up missing things, sometimes things that are kind of important.
Still exists in 3.4.2. Still annoying.
It's way more than just annoying. It's actively dangerous. For example I had to go through an amazing amount of effort to figure out what was wrong with the python-crypto package. The description is so long that the scrollbar is basically useless in that tiny window and you have to change focus to the window and use the arrow keys to move down by lines. But that description tells you the incredibly important and useful detail that all the El Gamal keys you may have previously generated might be broken and gives you a URL to a launchpad bug report that describes exactly how (and it's pretty serious though I don't expect too many people use python-crypto to generate El Gamal keys). Given that the only way for an end user to get this kind of update data is this really poorly done interface, I would think that it represents a security problem for it to be so difficult and clunky if you actually care what the data says.
At least, there is a bug filed upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666635
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I too have verified that this is still an issue for Fedora 18.
(In reply to comment #8) > I too have verified that this is still an issue for Fedora 18. As this bug doesn't seem to be getting any love upstream would it be possible to get a patch in the Fedora package?
the current list of duplicate/related 'Details window too small to use' bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750116 (this bug) (fc18) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816090 (fc17) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836364 (fc17) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908313 (fc18)
Still happening for F19 :-( Is this ever going to get fixed? How hard would it be to add a movable separator at least?
This has been fixed in openSUSE for over a year and a half. The patch is one line long and is attached to the upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666635 I would love to see it applied in Fedora.
Applied upstream. The pane is not yet resizable so I wouldn't close this bug yet, but it should be a more reasonable size now. Jens, could you close the three bugs in the comment above as duplicates of this one?
*** Bug 816090 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 836364 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 908313 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
What is the status of this ? We are at risk when applying updates without knowing what they do.
The status: 1. Upstream committed a workaround - increased height https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666635#c12 direct link to commit https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-packagekit/commit/?h=gnome-3-8&id=baf177fa0f69c16f3db92af16a7865dbb0d81428 2. It is not yet clear if there will be upstream release (3.8.3) to make this fix available for current stable. 3. It seems that this doesn't make details pane resizable, so before waiting for F20 it will be nice to see if increased size works, especially on narrow notebook screens.
F19 was still on 3.8.2. F20+ uses gnome-software. Though gnome-software on F20 also seems to have a size problem for me on small screen (eg kvm 1024x786 guests). ;-) F21 looks okay.
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This is still a problem on F21. Can we please have the Version: updated? Thanks.
This was fixed a while ago.
@Matthias: Per comment #13, it was not in fact. A hack to make it bigger was put in but the area is not yet resizable per the request in Description. Please reopen this bug so that it can be made resizable. Thanks.
@Matthias (or anyone with permission to reopen): Please see comment #23.
(In reply to Brian J. Murrell from comment #24) > @Matthias (or anyone with permission to reopen): Please see comment #23. reopened...
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This issue still exists in F24 (and I will bet F25 and rawhide). Can we please have the Version changed here to rawhide until this is fixed? It was changed to rawhide in comment #25 but then was changed to 23 by Jan Kurik. There is no point in putting in a version number here (i.e. rather than rawhide) when the problem is just going to slide from release to release with somebody having to waste their time asking for the Version to be updated after each release it slides past. Can we please set Version: to rawhide and leave it there until this is fixed?
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle. Changing version to '26'.
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Still exists in F27 and is going to continue to exist in rawhide until somebody actually does something about it. Can somebody please move the version to rawhide and leave it there until this is fixed so that we don't have to keep playing this EOL game over and over and over again?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't have access to fix anymore. Only Red Hat employees can.
This is an upstream bug in a package that hasn't been maintained for over half a decade. There's no point in tracking this problem on Red Hat Bugzilla. You can report a bug upstream if you want, but as the package is not maintained it's unlikely to receive attention.