Bug#531930: openoffice.org: Recovery dialog too tall, the buttons are out of reach

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

tag 531930 + pending
thanks

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:32:15PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Using OpenOffice on this netbook (MSI Wind) works mostly just fine, but when
> some file (in this case a Word file) requires a recovery, the recovery dialog
> is too tall, so the buttons to cancel/confirm the recovery are off the screen
> and the window manager does not provide any way to access them, so the only
> way out is to try and remember which button was where, and use TAB+RET to
> blindly select the right button.
> 
> Such 1024x600 screens are standard on pretty much all netbooks, so
> this is not a rare use case.

There is a fix for this available now, unfortunately we don't have it in
Debian yet and we froze today. I'll eventually try to get it into squeeze
but I can't promise anything.

Will most probably be fixed for squeeze + 1, though...

Grüße/Regards,

René