I believe that you can shrink the section pane as small as the largest button below it.
In your case problem seems to be caused by translation of 'Search Results' (left-bottom utton) being too large. Hope this helps. -- [Edgy] I can't shrink the sections pane https://launchpad.net/bugs/63946 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs