Bug 100581 – Meeting description too large in evolution calendar notify window

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Milton YATES 2005-07-28 04:53:41 UTC]

Evolution calendar can pop up alarms before meetings. The pop-up window does not
seem to be limited in size, and fairly big meeting descriptions generate pop-up
windows that exceed the size of the screen.
A scrolling text widget would be welcome.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Generate a meeting with alarm and with a description of at least 100 lines
2. wait for the BIG popup alarm window
Actual Results:  
The popup window is too big, you cannot access the buttons for example.

Expected Results:  
a (fixed?) size window with scrolling description

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9-skas3-v8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9-skas3-v8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU
     1133MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv
usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://xxxxxxxxxx"
USE="x86 X X509 a52 aalib abook acl acpi alsa anthy apache2 apm avi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 canna cdda cdio cdr chroot cjk crypt
cups curl dmx dnd dvd dvdread ecc eds emboss encode extensions fam ffmpeg flac
foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2
imagemagick imlib insecure-drivers ipv6 java jikes joystick jpeg junit
kdexdeltas ldap libcaca libg++ libwww mad maildir matroska mbox mikmod mmx motif
mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mule nas ncurses network nls nntp nptl nptlonly ogg
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl pg-hier php png postgres python qt
quicktime readline real samba sdl sftplogging silc skey skk slp sndfile socks5
spell sql sse ssl stream subversion svg svga svgz tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows
xface xine xinerama xml2 xmms xosd xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zlib userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-08-06 04:59:31 UTC]

which version of evolution?

is this theme specific?

Thanks.

[Comment 2 Milton YATES 2005-08-08 01:10:09 UTC]

> which version of evolution?

oops! This problem appeared starting evolution 2.2, right now I use
evolution-2.2.3-r2 and still have this problem.

I must say that this popup problem is not the only one with these meeting
descriptions. If the meeting description is too large, then again it often
doesn't fit in the display of the meeting request. I think the layout of this
kind of mail  is currently fixed in a way or another (didn't have time to check
the code though). At least a scrollbar would be very useful.

[Comment 3 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2006-01-24 08:48:08 UTC]

100 lines... whoa.

I see what you mean, it obviously just uses a label instead of a non-editable entry. I'll have a look at patching it, but if you have the time, patches are always welcome.

[Comment 4 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2006-07-14 12:51:57 UTC]

please upgrade to evolution-2.6 ( just marked stable with GNOME 2.14 ) and re-open the bug if you can still reproduce it.