It can be useful to use Alt-Left-click and hold, then drag the window up, so you can see the bottom of the dialogue. But I agree, it would be great if the dialogues could fit to any screen size. My eeePC is 800x480, so I often lose the bottoms of dialogues until I move them upwards.
Patrick Gregory Pittman wrote: > I recently bought a netbook (Dell 2100 N), which I would advise anyone > considering a netbook to consider. First of all, an option is to have > it come with Ubuntu pre-installed. The main value to me is that I > immediately know that at least _some_ version of Linux will manage the > hardware issues. Without getting into any distro-bashing, I'll just go > on to say that as soon as I could, I replaced Ubuntu with Fedora 11, > mainly because I'm more comfortable with it, and have lots of > experience compiling Scribus on Fedora. [One of the lame things about > this factory-installed Ubuntu is that you lose >5GB of your 16GB SSD > to a vfat "rescue partition", which, if you booted into by mistake or > on purpose, would completely blow away any data you might have saved > in Ubuntu and restore you to a pristine factory-installed state. (ie, > Dell-Linux for Dummies)] > > Ok, getting back to this list, once I had Fedora, then I knew all > about SVN and cmake and compiling Scribus. Everything went well until > I opened File > Preferences, and noted that the Preferences dialog > ends up being taller than the 576 pixels this netbook can manage. The > problem this causes is that you might be able to make various changes > in your Preferences, but how do you save them? Eventually I figured > out that I could make changes, then press Alt+O as an equivalent for > the Ok button. I would add at this point that, in contrast to some > other apps with this problem, you cannot Tab to the offscreen Ok > button -- it seems to get stuck at the first offscreen button, > regardless of whether you're doing Tab or Shift+Tab. > > The Solution: > Eventually, with some playing around that many of us Linux users are > prone to, I can report that, at least with Fedora 11 and KDE, if you > click on the little icon in the upperleft part of the title bar, you > can then select Advanced > Special Window Settings, where you can > check the Size checkbox, THEN click the drop down list that says Do > Not Affect, where you can click on an item Force. NOW you can change > the settings, which for my computer specified a height of 683 pixels, > to something that is somewhere onscreen. Note that once you do this, > after you click Apply, Click Ok in the Advanced Settings dialog, you > must Quit and restart Scribus to check out your changes. > > This is not the total solution. What you will find in the dialog is > that some tabs contain more lines of text than will fit in the newly > shrunken dialog. In addition, no slider appears to allow access to the > missing information. So in the General tab, you must reduce the size > of the font, more specifically Font Size (Menus) so that everything > fits in the dialog (I can manage 6-7 points). Click Apply and you see > your result onscreen. I would add that changing the font size does not > affect the dialog size, in case you wondered. > > Having gone through all this, my suspicion is that an alternative > approach is somewhere in the bowels of Qt -- at least it seems > sensible that Qt should be paying attention to my display settings. If > I figure this out I will post an update. > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- Patrick Ernst ARO Australia Pty Ltd Mob: 0404 883 145 Fax: 08 8219 0124 iNet: www.aroaustralia.com
