Created attachment 640846 [details] dialog in question Description of problem: Error dialog in software selection screen is too large, it contains 3.5 lines of text, and it's way too easy to read. I propose to shrink it so that it contains just 0.5 lines of text and users have more fun reading it. </irony> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda 18.24
I can certainly make the dialog taller, but we're always going to end up with the fractional lines of text and if I make it too big, we're going to get into trouble when there's really only a couple lines of errors to report.
When the dialog has space for 15 lines, and only 3 are occupied, is that "a problem"? What about making the dialog resizable? That would be a nice usability improvement as well. I don't know GTK, but in Swing I used to do something like this: dialog.textarea.setRows(5) # this is the default set in UI designer if mytext.lines() > 10: # this is in program code executed dynamically dialog.textarea.setRows(15)
Tested in F19 Beta TC3. The dialog is clearly taller, even with only two errors (looks like there's a dozen or more lines of space in it). Closing.