Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 79013
Lengthy advisory makes window taller than screen
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:50 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: A lengthy advisory (e.g. RHSA-2002:220-40) creates a very tall dialog when you click View Advisory. Even on a 1024x768 display this can be taller than the screen, so the top and bottom parts of the window are off-screen. Savvy users will figure out how to use their window manager to reign in the dialog, but for newbies the situation can be intimidating because the standard window controls and the dismissmal button are unavailable to them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run up2date (GUI). 2. Click on a KDE package affected by RHSA-2002:220-40. 3. Click View Advisory. Actual Results: The resulting dialog is very tall. Expected Results: Perhaps a scrollbox or something. Additional info:
*** Bug 79702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
One of many "up2date doesn't use enough scrolling windows" bugs. I believe this one, like the others, has been fixed. In any case, up2date is no longer shipped with Fedora Core; its functionality has been replaced by pup, found in the pirut package. The only fixes likely to be made to up2date in RedHat Linux and earlier Fedora Core versions are security fixes by Fedora Legacy. This does not seem to be a security bug, so I'm closing it. If the problem is appropriate to RHEL and occurs to a user there, it can be filed as such.