bug#44428: closed (Graphical Installer window clipping on "small" displays)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Graphical Installer window clipping on "small" displays Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:00:43 -0600 User-agent: Evolution 3.34.2

Hello Guix,

When running the graphical installer on my Asus EeePC, many of the
windows get "clipped", i.e. content flows over the edge of the display.
Pictures are attached.  Some critical text and a few of the action
buttons disappear.

I manage to get through the installation, but maybe only because I've
done this so many times and am familiar with the process :), but I fear
someone new to Guix might be less forgiving.

The native resolution of the display is 1024x600.  In one of the ttys I
see:

  root@gnu ~# printf "%dx%d\n" $COLUMNS $LINES
  128x37

but the graphical installer window appears to display at about 102x31.

I can understand if this is not a configuration that we need to
"support", but was hoping that there might be something that could bedone to 
help.
These pictures were taken using the 1.1.0 release installer, but an
installer I created for i686 at commit 8a7bbc35 seems to behave the
same.


`~Eric

1-language-selection.jpg
Description: JPEG image

2-welcome.jpg
Description: JPEG image

3-keyboard.jpg
Description: JPEG image

4-wifi.jpg
Description: JPEG image

5-partition.jpg
Description: JPEG image

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> Hey Eric,
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> > Yes, I still see the situation on the welcome and partitioning pages. 
> > But I did not want to go past the partition step, because I have data
> > on this disk ;).
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> Hehe, thanks for testing again :) I fixed a few more things, so that the
> welcome logo is not displayed on small resolutions and the partitioning
> and configuration pages do not overflow.
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> Pushed as 6dcbbcdab7727946cf32e7a4e44e66d151380db2.
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> On QEMU with 800x600 resolution there's no more box overflow. I hope
> it will be the same on your hardware that seem to have a slightly higher
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> Maybe we should take this one to the 1.2 branch. Ludo?
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> Thanks,
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> Mathieu
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