Inkscape leaves artifacts on the screen

I added a similar bug as a duplicate of this, although it's not exactly the same, it's related.
I think we should unify these bugs in one single bug report to avoid cluttering.
A proper summary of the problem would be something like: "UI issues in small screens (netbooks)".
- the minimum screen height is still higher than the needed for an 800x480 Asus EEE 701 (tested on a default gnome with 2 panels and a 1 panel ubuntu netbook remix)
- restore/maximize problems under windows
- minimum screen width allowed occlude some UI elements on the right of the window.

Please try to keep the related information in a single report instead of opening several copies of the same issue with minor variations.

I think we should keep one bug report for each topic you listed, as they are somewhat different, and mark the others as duplicate.
But we can add a metabug in order to provide a link to the three reference bugs. What's the policy regarding metabugs? AFAIK, there's no Inkscape metabug in Launchpad.
We could also add tags to these bug reports. That's a good way to group things (and lots of bugs are not tagged...). I suggest "netbook" and "ui-dialogs-toolbars".

JazzyNico:
I suggested to join all the bugs in the same place because, afaik, there is currently just one person watching these issues (JonCruz).
There are already lots of bugs wich are basically the same with minor variations, placing the related bugs in one place and dropping the duplicates here sounds -to me at least- a good idea in order to reduce the large number of open, unconfirmed bugs.
I'm assigning this to JonCruz. He did the UI fixes for small screens and I guess he's the right person to ask to about grouping the reports or not.

I am also affected by UI issues with inkscape. It's a hp 2140 with a 1024x576 px screen, on ubuntu netbook remix. inkscape version 0.46.

The main problem is, that the vertical tool bar on the left is too high. I can detach it, but neither switch to horizontal or - preferable - resize it to be two columns wide. The window can't be maximized, too. I think, a vertical two columns layout for the tool bar would solve it. Apart from that i didn't notice other ui bugs.

Herald: The problems you describe have already been fixed in SVN (development version).

@Guillermo: yes, i compiled the svn trunk yesterday, ui is useable again ;)
There is just a thrid horizontal toolbar for grid/snapping. Is this intended? I wasn't able to get rid of it.

Harald (sorry for mispelling your name in the previous comment :-)
The new snapping bar can be disabled using view>show/hide.
Is very useful, though. At first it looks a little bit invasive, maybe because its icons are pretty large.

@Guillermo: no problem ;)
Ah thanks, maybe it should be called "show/hide toolbars", but never mind. The toolbar is indeed cool, but you know, if your vertical resolution is 576 px you need every pixel. And yes, I know that I can make the icons small and smaller.

freeciv-gtk doesn't cope with my netbook's resolution. The option to start a new game is off the bottom of the screen.

I have the same problem with Evolution in a Acer Aspire One.

I don't know if this bug is just related to Inkscape only.

In evolution mail, on a screen resolution of 800x480 (as in this eeepc 701), I am unable to make the sidebar wider (reducing the width of the main view), resulting in obscured foldernames in the inbox.

The "main view" (where mails in current folder is displayed on top and active mail is displayed on the bottom) could perhaps not have a fixed minimal width (of what appears to be about 700 px)?

netbook-remix is not a valid target for bugs, moving this to Ubuntu-distribution, concerning the inkscape package. And yes, please open a new bug for each app, rather than clumping them together under a single bug. Thanks!

When I suggested to keep related reports in one single bug report I meant about inkscape having problems with small screens. There were a couple of bugs related to the screen size and was pointless (in my oppinion) to have them separated, since the origin was the same: inkscape UI didn't fit in small screens.

This is an inkscape bug report, and I think that other reports should be marked invalid. It even looks like a launchpad bug that someone can create an Evolution bug on top of this report that belongs to inkscape.

Removing Evolution bug, as this is being handled separately as bug #23810

Removing evolution bug as this is now in a separate report as bug #23810

This bug report is supposed to be about one issue only: the display artefacts left on screen when using the win32 version. Reading through the report, I don't think anyone has experienced this on Ubuntu, so I'm marking this as invalid. Other small screen display issues should be reported separately.

Hi, I just tried the Export Bitmap function for the first time. Now I have a gray box -- an image artefact -- remaining on screen. See screenshot attached. You can see the box top dead center underneath the browser title bar. Am I in the right place to report this bug? I'm running Inkscape 0.48 on Linux Mint 13 (Maya) with Cinnamon desktop.

Unfortunately earlier commenters could not agree about the scope of this report (which was originally about a specific issue of Inkscape with the win32 backend of GTK+: artifacts (leftovers) on the canvas area when dragging a floating dialog), and decided to use it as (unrelated) kind of semi-metabug for limitations of the UI on small screens (netbooks) affecting all platforms. IMHO this makes this report unusable - or at least unnecessarily difficult - to further triage and progress tracking with regard to the various mentioned UI problems.

@David Wenk - about your issue: your screenshot doesn't actually show Inkscape and the issue you describe, so it's impossible to tell whether what your problem actually is. Since you are using Mint 13, and do not mention using a small screen either, this report (bug #326340) is certainly not something related to what you want to report. More likely your problem could be related to this report we got lately from Mint users:
- Bug #1008039 "Inkscape Displays Blank Dialog During Filter (Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon)"
  <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1008039>

No droppings here. Can someone still reproduce this on Windows? If not, close as Invalid.

Win 7 64-bit
Inkscape 0.92pre1_64bit r15044

Hi All,

6 Years, to check on a bug, really?

Yikes,
BrendaEM

On 8/23/2016 5:07 AM, Beluga wrote:
> No droppings here. Can someone still reproduce this on Windows? If not,
> close as Invalid.
>
> Win 7 64-bit
> Inkscape 0.92pre1_64bit r15044
>