Ubuntu
empathy package

Status box doesn't use all available screen space

Bug #416747 reported by Craig Cabrey
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
One Hundred Papercuts
Confirmed
Undecided
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empathy (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

The status box (where you select when your Available, Away, Invisible, Offline, etc) has a small amount of space to the right that could be utilized by the widget. If you resize the empathy window horizontally, it grows larger but still never uses all the space available to it. I'll attach a screenshot to make this a bit easier :).

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Craig Cabrey (cabrey) wrote :
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Steeley (steeleyuk) wrote :

The space is used for the throbber which indicates when Empathy is connecting to your accounts.

The solution to this would probably be to display the throbber permanently, but when the account is offline/online, have it greyed out (see Firefox activity indicator as an example).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, what ubuntu version do you use? I don't confirm that on karmic

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

summary: - [papercut] Status box doesn't use all available screen space
+ Status box doesn't use all available screen space
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

its fixed in 2.29.5

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project.

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

om26er, why did you mark this Invalid in hundredpapercuts?

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: Invalid → Fix Committed
status: Fix Committed → Confirmed
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