248727 - contents panel on help viewer should be wider

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[Peter Hewitt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040624 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040624 Firefox/0.9

By default the firefox help viewer's contents pane is very narrow and cuts off
most of the topic titles (especially "Help For Internet Explorer Users"). It
basically looks clumsy and nasty and means you have to stretch it to read the
titles.

I suggest it be made around about 190px wide so that the longest topic "help for
internet explorer users" fits nicely and still has a right margin. This doesn't
affect the other pane by much either, they actually balance better.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click Help menu
2. Click help contents
3. Look at width of contents panel and think "oh dear, that's very narrow isn't it"



Expected Results:  
Panel should be wide enough to display full topics.

Comment 1

[Richard Corbin]

WFM.

Also, if you widen the contents panel, the next time you enter 'help contents'
it remembers the width you chose, therefore a user can fix this themselves.

Therefore marked as WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

this is a valid complaint, although the fix is more likely to work on making
titles in the contents pane not be too wide.

Comment 3

[R.J. Keller]

Confirming bug.

Comment 4

[R.J. Keller]

Attachment: Patch

Comment 5

[R.J. Keller]

Comment on attachment 152803 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch

Ben, can you review this quick one-line patch?

Comment 6

[R.J. Keller]

Fix checked in.

Comment 7

[R.J. Keller]

*** Bug 251757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I still see this in a new profile created with 2004071509 windows build on XP. 

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

The Using Mozilla Firefox, Download Manager, Options and Managing Cookies pages
are all too wide, causing a horizontal scrollbar.

Comment 10

[R.J. Keller]

I think I fixed this bug with another. Just double-checked and my help window
sizes are the same ones that are set in help.xul, so marking fixed.