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[Chris Wilson <afrowildo@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
    Milestone: lucid-round-2 => precise-9-miscellaneous

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219385

Title:
  File filters can make file selection dialog too wide for screen

Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit:
  Fix Released
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Fix Committed
Status in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “gtk+2.0” package in CentOS:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-desktop-environment

  This bug occurs in Firefox but is likely related to the generic Gnome
  file-selection-dialog rather than application specific.

  In this case our website is calling OS file dialog via Firefox and
  JS/Flash, passing in a filter with a description (eg. "Photos and
  Videos"), and file extension-matching pattern (eg.
  "*.mov;*.mpg;*.avi;*.jpg")

  Windows dialogs tend to truncate this list, and expand only the drop-
  down when selected, open and active. Ubuntu/Gnome appears to make the
  dialog width match the width of the filter drop-down, which is quite
  long due to the number of file types and mixed-case scenarios (eg.
  *.jpg;*.JPG)

  Due to the amount of file formats we're filtering based on, the dialog
  box can easily grow wider than the user's display permits.

  See screenshot for illustration:
  http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/2403694395_ca70740726.jpg

  Expected behavior would be to truncate the file filter list display
  past a certain point to prevent dialog box from growing too large.

  Our testing confirms this behavior in both Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04RC.

  This bug prevents Ubuntu users from being able to use the advanced
  upload tool on Flickr.com from Firefox.

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