project selection combo box too narrow for text

This happens to me too on Jaunty (boinc v.6.2.18). Changing status to "Confirmed".

Workaround until this gets fixed:

<rww> ah, okay. What OS did you test it on? Ubuntu Intrepid, perchance?
<---> Jaunty
<rww> Did you run into https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/339822 ?
* rww has been meaning to figure out what's causing that, hasn't gotten around to it
<---> rww: Yes I did, but, just select a project then press back.
<---> it'll maximize :)
<---> select a project, push next, then press back

Confirming. IIRC I've read about it somewhere before and it may be a toolkit bug, but I'm not sure.
Would be interesting to know if the current release (6.4.5) is affected by this as well.

+1 from me

I no longer get this bug with 6.4.5 for Linux x64 from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

Since Karmic currently has the same version as Jaunty (6.2.18), it's currently experiencing it too.

Debian Experimental has 6.4.5, and there appears to be a request that it be synced to Ubuntu open already: bug 311107

Robert, then it's probably something specific to the patches from Debian/Ubuntu: I'm in the process of merging 6.4.5 from Debian and the bug is still there.. :/

Seems to be related to the build process or some patch (but there is nothing obvious in debian/patches/ - but what do I know?! ;)).

Have you built the upstream from source, or used the .sh-installer for the binary?

Daniel: I used the .sh installer at http://boincdl.ssl.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.4.5_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh on Karmic (as I said earlier, that doesn't exhibit this bug). I haven't figured out how to compile BOINC from source, so I can't test that.

The .sh installer version and the karmic "boinc" package appear to be using different versions of wxWidgets (per Help>About BOINC Manager). Could that be causing it to work in one (.sh, using wxWidgets 2.8.7) and not the other (karmic, using 2.8.9 I think)?

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: boinc 6.4.5-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-9.10-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-9-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

Here's my info, and I'm still experiencing this bug. Robert's workaround works fine though.

+1 - Makes it difficult to use attach to project

AMD64, Karmic alpha

I confirm this happens for me also.

$ apt-cache policy boinc-client
boinc-client:
  Installed: 6.4.5+dfsg-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 6.4.5+dfsg-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 6.4.5+dfsg-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ uname -a
Linux intersect 2.6.31-10-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 10 23:29:56 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

This bug is current in Karmic Beta 1, same version as above: 6.4.5+dfsg-2ubuntu1

uname -a
Linux teej-laptop 2.6.31-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 11:55:55 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Curious. If you select one project, click "Next", then, after the wind has updated, you click "Back" you go back to the initial window, but without the display problem...

Ooops, I was about to post my other screenshot, but then I saw Robert's solution. Sorry!

This bug is now fixed in Ubuntu Lucid, BOINC 6.10.17+dfsg-1ubuntu1. The combo box now has a normal width. Marking as Fix Released.

Can this be fixed in Karmix as well?

Duh. I meant Karmic of course.

A fix was released for this, please do not change the status back.
It was marked Fix Released because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Lucid Lynx.
If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.
[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure