18018 - Some items in Edit|Prefs|Mailnews has minor formatting problems.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[daver]

Something is wrong with the text layout on a number of the mail prefs panels.
Everyone after addressing has a problem.

Comment 1

[lchiang]

Here is one specific formatting/alignment bugs for prefs:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17086

Comment 2

[laurel]

This has gotten worse over all panels.  There is more text clipping than
originally reported (in 17086), relative text for radio/checkbox options
alignment has gotten worse, and the addition of outliner boxes for sets of pref
options on a given panel sometime overlay the text lines or displace them.

Comment 3

[lchiang]

Dogfood nomination - Hard for user to set up prefs if s/he can't see the full
text of the descriptions.

Comment 4

[leger]

Putting on PDT+ radar.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

marking m12.  accepting.

Comment 6

[laurel]

*** Bug 19577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Chris McAfee]

evauhan just re-did some of the pref panels, find ones
with blue titles and copy the layout strategy there.
The old panels were doing things wrong/inefficiently.

Comment 8

[hangas]

To completely fix this bug I need 20070 fixed, adding it as dependency.

Comment 9

[hangas]

Fix checked in.  The panels all display with a gray background, the proper
header, and use newly created styles common to all panels.  There are three new
bugs that have been filed against other people (20070, 20244, 20245).  These bugs
are preventing the mail pref panels from displaying perfectly.

Comment 10

[lchiang]

Fenella, can you help verify this since Laurel is out sick today?  We wanted to
verify resolved bugs with PDT+ by 1pm Tuesday 11/30.  Thanks.

Comment 11

[fenella]

Sure.
Using Linux Redhat 6.0 (1999-11-30-08 M12) build. Here is the result:
Text in Addressing, Messages, Return Receipt and Disk Space look OK.
Window Setting: In the default Preference window size, the text in the first two
boxes wrapped on top of the border, which does not look good.
Formatting: In each of the bullet list, there exist a big gap (about 7 character
space) between the sentences. This problem does not exist in the 11/29 build.

Mac (1999-11-30-10 M12)
Text in Messages, alignment is off
Window Settings: Same wrap around problem as Linux
Return Receipt: Same wrap around problem as window settings.
Disk Space: Alignment problems.

Win_nt 4.0: Today's build is not out yet.

Anyway, I have to re-open this bug.

Comment 12

[Akkana Peck]

In my 11/30 debug build, I see the same thing fenella sees in Window Setting,
though I don't see the big spaces in Formatting.  In addition, the dropdown in
the first box in Messages is on the line below "Then" rather than next to it,
and overwrites the box border.

Also, in the Category list on the left, "Mail and Newsgroups" and "Software
Installation" are both too wide so their right edges are cut off (that's a
general pref window problem, not specific to the mail/news panes).

Comment 13

[lchiang]

Talked to Paul - the remaining items are covered under the separate bugs that he
mentions.  Marking dependency on those bugs.  Right now, the prefs for mail/news
are usable.  I'm going to clear the dogfood summary and change it a bit.

Comment 14

[hangas]

This is now a tracking bug, once the other bugs that this depends on are fixed
this can be marked fixed.

Comment 15

[fenella]

Win_nt 4.0 (1999-11-3-12 M12)
All of the following options have alignment problem
Addressing
Messages
Window Settings
Return Receipts
Disk Space

Comment 16

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

take a look again tomorrow.

hangas and I fixed a couple things.

I'm not claiming its fixed, but we are closer.

Comment 17

[Akkana Peck]

Actually, it's worse today.  The Return Receipts frames extend off the right
edge of the window, and Disk Space has "Keep messages which have ..." wrapping
because it's too wide, which causes "Remove message bodies..." to draw on top of
the frame outline.

One thing that is better (sort of) is that the items in the Category list which
are too wide now show ellipses (...)".  That looks better than just cutting them
off, though in some senses it's actually worse because it means I get a couple
of characters less context.

Comment 18

[laurel]

Newest items of note for this overall problem: Edit|Prefs|Mail and
Newsgroups|Messages|Emoticons and Structs.  Especially horrible on Mac.

Comment 19

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spam: added self to cc list as this might affect my realm.

Comment 20

[hangas]

Bumping to M15

Comment 21

[hangas]

The prefs dialog should have a size that accomodates all of our panels.  We 
should set the size of the frame that holds the panels to a value in em's and 
have that frame size be used to intrinsicly size the dialog.  It should not be 
resizeable, that only allows for poorly designed panels.  Sending to Ben who is 
revamping this dialog now.

Comment 22

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

not a priority, pushing out as far as possible.

Comment 23

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

As far as I can tell my latest round of prefs changes fixed this...

Comment 24

[laurel]

Most of the prefs seem ok at this point. I know there will be more prefs
added/removed in the weeks to come and I'm doing a brief visual look at what
needs to be done to come up to the revised mail prefs spec level.  So, we should
discover any new formatting problems anway.

Marking this bug verified as of may01-02 commercial builds.