Bug 333008

Description Kristof Szabados 2010-12-21 07:40:14 EST

Build Identifier: I20100608-0911

I'm working on many platforms, and on several ones semi-fixed size dialog windows provide lots of problems for.
I say semi-fixed size, because for some reason the dialog windows tend to take up different sizes on each platform, but are not resizeable by me the user.
For example I just installed a new version of a plugin on a solaris machine (on eclipse 3.3 but happens with older versions too), and the dialog window requesting the restart of the machine was a bit thin: There was exactly one word per line, and even that was cut by the side of the window ... so I was only able about the first 3-4 letter of every word. And the button row was already outside of the screen space with such a "tall" window.
But just to give an example that is needed in daily work is clearing the Error Log. If I press on the large red cross on the Error Log View I get a dialog window that is about as tall as my screen, but only as wide as the "OK|Cancel" text minimally allows.
If this window could be resized (and maybe could remember its previous size), that would fix all these problems.
Also as far as I know making a window resizeable only means to add one style flag to its style, or it's shells style.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try to clear the Error Log View, or try to install a new version of something.