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I don't know the technical details of this package. It is the default
settings manager in Ubuntu 11.10, latest version as of 12/25/2011 at
8:10 PM EST. This can be accessed by clicking the gear/power button icon
in the upper right of the screen, and selecting the top option, "System
Settings....". I am trying to make the window full screen, but I there
is no maximize button, my maximize shortcut doesn't work, double-
clicking the title bar doesn't work, and the window can't be resized
through the edges of the window. I would have included the package name
or looked at the man pages, but I can't figure out what package this is.
I tried going under "help>about" as in most applications, but there is
no menu bar. I even recognize the application from Ubuntu 10.10, which I
no longer have installed, nor do I plan to install to fix this.

You might be wondering why I'm even posting this bug report. The sound
manager now exists solely in this application, and I have multiple audio
devices. My most commonly used audio devices are my speakers, which is a
4.0 surround setup, a stereo Bluetooth headset, with microphone, and an
HDMI port on my graphics card. Since I cannot resize the window, and the
icons only have one size, I am forced to work with what I have. The
audio devices are large blocks in a scrollable list, which could
technically be replaced with medium sized icons. The HDMI and speaker
devices have a number of useful options like left-right balance, front-
back balance, and the connector type. These take up the majority of the
bottom of the window, and could take up less space if their labels were
moved to the left or right of the sliders they describe, rather than
below each slider.

The simplest and best solution, however is to simply make the
application scalable. I have a rather large display and can afford to
have all sorts of options lying around waiting to be put to good use.
Some people have smaller screens, and will appreciate my suggestion to
make icons smaller. In the even that smaller icons become available,
however, make sure that the larger versions remain available. Just
because tablets and phones are getting smaller doesn't meen you need to
force lower resolutions: people are also trying to make HD TVs, increase
screen size, and even bring HD to portable devices. Linux is a scalable
environment: as more applications support Unity, more people will be
willing to use it. Just make sure that those of us who built servers and
gaming PCs aren't sitting at what might as well be a first generation
iPod.

** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment
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"System Settings" window cannot resize
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/908650
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