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"'cannot resize' is a design decision and not a bug."

This sounds like Microsoft's famed "undocumented features".

Locking the window size adds no value to an application: it detracts a
common feature. Larger displays have lots of space, and your present
window would be hard to see at all. The smaller displays of netbooks
don't have the screen resolution for anything quite as large as your
present interface. The interface must scale.

I also note that you responded to my suggestion immediately, in a manner
similar to trolls in online forums.

There are a number of valid bugs in Ubuntu that are being declared
"invalid" by people working at Canonical. Many of these bug reports were
submitted by people who have been using Ubuntu for a long time,
including some of the people who helped design Warty, the first version
of Ubuntu.

At this point in time I would like to remind you of the basic philosophy
of Ubuntu. This was taken directly from the Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty
Jackalope, example content.

Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". Ubuntu also means "I am what I am because of who we all are". The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.
Desmond Tutu described ubuntu in the following way:
"A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole."
We chose the name Ubuntu for this distribution because we think it captures perfectly the spirit of sharing and cooperation that is at the heart of the open source movement. In the Free Software world, we collaborate freely on a volunteer basis to build software for everyone's benefit. We improve on the work of others, which we have been given freely, and then share our improvements on the same basis.

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/908650

Title:
  "System Settings" window cannot resize

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  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.

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