Bugzilla – Bug 881828
Buttons on harddisk preparation screen barely clickable (600px high screen)
Last modified: 2014-06-23 12:32:44 UTC
Created attachment 593843 [details] small buttons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 I tried to install OpenSuSE 13.1 on a Lenovo Ideapad S10-3t which is a smallish but wide screen. I got to the "Preparing Hard Disk" (sic!) screen but the buttons it offers me were barely clickable, let alone legible, due to their tiny size. I expected to be able to clearly read the text belonging to a button. Maybe a minimum height could be enforced on all buttons in use. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
The used GUI is libyui-gtk. Tobias, how are you running the installation? I thought this was the GNOME-Live CD, but when I run the Live Installation from its desktop, the dialog looks different. When resized, the dialog truncates the buttons instead of squashing them (which is still bad). But I am not sure whether we support the 600 pixel height for the installer. An alternative is the text mode installation.
(In reply to comment #2) > Tobias, how are you running the installation? I was running it straight off the (GNOME) pendrive. > But I am not sure whether we support the 600 pixel height for the installer. An > alternative is the text mode installation. Fair enough. I bet people would like to know that. I don't have any data, but I can imagine this form factor to be somewhat common among those rather small laptops (and tablets). If OpenSuSE wants to run on those devices, it might be worth it to investigate how to make the installer run nonetheless.
The settings of the proposal have been moved to a separate dialog for openSUSE 13.2. Thus there should be enough space even on such small screens.