[Bug 39216] Progress bar too thick for status bar

[mannheim]

Public bug reported:

Affects: ubuntulooks (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
Several gnome (and other) applications have a status bar at the bottom
of the main window, in which (from time to time) a progress bar is
sometimes drawn. (For example, firefox shows a progress bar while
loading a web page, or Synaptic while recreating the list in the main
window after a "reload").

The ubuntulooks progress bar seems to have a "fat" version which is too
thick (vertically) to fit in the status bar. The result is that the
status bar is made bigger (vertically), for the short time that the
progress bar is visible. The result is very ugly, because the rest of
the window is often redrawn also, because of the changed vertical space.

Examples of this behaviour include Eye of Gnome and Synaptic. In "Eye of
Gnome", the effect is particularly horrible: open a picture from a
folder with more than one picture; make sure that the picture fills the
vertical height of the window, and click "Next". Watch how the status
bar expands and the picture is redrawn smaller to fit the smaller
window.

Firefox shows a narrower style of progress bar. This narrow style should
be used in Eye of Gnome, Synaptic and other affected applications.
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Progress bar too thick for status bar
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39216