212747 - ChatZilla preferences are too big for Preferences window

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Vedran Miletic]

ChatZilla preferences are much bigger than Preferences window can show, so some
of them can't be shown.

Comment 1

[Vedran Miletic]

Attachment: Screenshot

This screenshot shows what happens.

Comment 2

[Chris Casciano]

-> All/All (OS X)

*really* rough testing shows this happened somewhere between 1.4 and 1.5a... all
themes

Comment 3

[Chris Casciano]

robert, do you have any plans / design direction here? I may look at this if I
have time in the next few weeks and see if I can get a clean solution together,
but this is pretty much your thing.

Comment 4

[James Ross]

I'd be happy to have a go at this one... there's a few other things I know of
that need tweaking/fixing with prefs, might as well do them in one go.

Comment 5

[Samuel Sieb]

*** Bug 216247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Robert Ginda]

Silver and I discussed this briefly on #chatzilla the other day.  It's going to
be a big change, but I'd like to drop the current pref panels in favor of a
(mostly) generated pref editor done as an .html file in a chrome url.

http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/pref-chat.txt

Comment 7

[Chris Casciano]

Attachment: quick XUL patch

This is a quick patch against cvs (cz 0.8.34). As discussed with rginda on IRC
this is just a simple removal of the "What does this mean" help option in the
first group in the pane.

This gets its so all the prefs are seen and (at least on os x classic & modern)
things look just fine.

Didn't remove any of the scripts or gut this any deeper then the XUL file as I
expect it to be a somewhat temporary fix.

Comment 8

[Chris Casciano]

Attachment: screenshot with patch applied

a screenshot with the patch applied.. OS X/Modern Skin

Comment 9

[Tamas Gervai]

Look fine on Linux (helvetica, 12pt)

Default character encoding should be empty dropdown, I suppose.

Comment 10

[Robert Ginda]

The chatzilla 0.9.x branch has landed on the trunk and should be available in
tomorrow's nightly build.  If you believe this bug has not actually been fixed,
please repoen it.

Comment 11

[Vedran Miletic]

v

Comment 12

[Vedran Miletic]

Attachment: Screenshot with Modern Theme

When using Modern theme, bar still gets cut. This doesn't really matter for
preferences, because coding can still be selected, so it's design-only issue.
I don't know if it's important or not.

Comment 13

[Andreas Kunz]

Ummm... this is still not fixed in the suite. Using current trunk builds with
Classic theme on Win XP it looks pretty much like in the last attachment added
above.
Bug 226305 is related.

I know the upcoming new prefs window may/does fix this by completely rearranging
things, but it's not currently in Mozilla and this bug might have to be fixed
for 1.7 (or even later) independently from what happens on the chatzilla
development trunk.

Reopening.

Comment 14

[bulk88]

As of 1.7 RC2 this problem still exists in Win2k in modern and classic themes,
the bottom border of character encoding is still cut off.  Should be fixed so
Mozilla looks more professional.

Comment 15

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #14)
> As of 1.7 RC2 this problem still exists in Win2k in modern and classic themes,
> the bottom border of character encoding is still cut off.  Should be fixed so
> Mozilla looks more professional.

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616] (release) (W98SE)
and
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040520] (release) (W98SE)

In W98SE, Classic, too.

Comment 16

[Vedran Miletic]

Chatzilla got new preferences window and this bug no longer exists.