[Bug 1623856] Re: Scrolled Windows in update-manager are too small to read

[Scott Cowles Jacobs]

Tested from yakkety-proposed

scott at scott-ASUS-M2N68-AM-PLUS:~$ update-manager --version
update-manager: version 1:16.10.8

When "details" is clicked when the files are being downloaded, even if maximized,
one gets less than one line displayed (I think it's about 1/2 a line!).

When the install is being done, one line is displayed, then two, then
three, etc. until maybe half the screen height is being used when
maximized.

I tried to screenshot the install screen before it reached its maximum height, as
it looks quite messy until it reaches it, but I was too slow.  The white-on-black terminal lines don't reach all the way across the window until the full height is reached, and it scrolls the shorter lines off the top of the terminal screen.  If it blanked the screen with the background color first for the full width/height of the display terminal, it would look much better (although as I say, it does not use all of the window height provided)

One other thing I noted:

A new kernel was being installed, and despite my OS being 64-bit, I noted a reference to
GRUB being built (?) for i386, so I tried to select/cut/paste the relevent part of the output before update-manager finished its work.
I couldn't.

I could make the selection, but right-clicking did not generate the usual copy/select-all options, so I tried to cntrl-C, and paste into leafpad.
No-Go.  The terminal apparently cannot do cut-n-paste.
(Nor can one apparently request the window stay open when the install is complete, as I believe both synaptic and gdebi do).

I enclose (hopefully) two screenshots.
1. download detail window with less than one line height
2. install detail window not utilizing full maximized window height

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System details same as my (duplicate) bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1637909


** Attachment added: "Maximized detail window during downloading."
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1623856/+attachment/4772756/+files/UpdateManager_DownloadWindow.png

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Title:
  Scrolled Windows in update-manager are too small to read

Status in aptdaemon package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in aptdaemon source package in Yakkety:
  Confirmed
Status in update-manager source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

    * Expanding the scrolled windows for download progress or technical
  details in update-manager are just one line high, making them
  unreadable.

  [ Test Case ]

    * Install Ubuntu 16.10 final or 17.04 daily.
    * Open update-manager and wait for it to refresh.
    * Expand the technical details, you'll see the scrolled window is just one line high. (This exercises update-manager)
    * Install the updates, expand the Details while updates are downloaded.  Again you'll see the scrolled window is just one line high. (This exercises aptdaemon.gtk3widgets)

  After installing the patched aptdaemon and update-manager packages
  following the same steps will result in both scrolled windows
  defaulting to several lines of readable output.

  [ Regression Potential ]

    * None.
    * racb: a mistake in the patch could cause the window appearance to screw up in some other way.

  [ Other Info ]

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: update-manager 1:16.10.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9136.55-generic 4.4.16
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9136-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Sep 15 10:10:08 2016
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'406'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'484'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1473927310'
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-07-25 (51 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-09-06 (8 days ago)

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