502371 - Preferences dialog too small

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Jens Herrmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090702 Gentoo Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090702 Gentoo Firefox/3.5

In the preferences dialog there are 2 pages in which I have to scroll down to access certain fields. This is the case with "Verfassen->Allgemein" and "Ansicht->Formatierung". Both dialogs should be made larger. This is TB 2.0.0.22

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[u88484]

So you see the problem in Firefox or Thunderbird?

Comment 2

[Jens Herrmann]

Sorry, Thunderbird was meant.

Comment 3

[rsx11m]

This may be specific to the locale based on any strings being longer than in the en-US version. The other option may be that your DPI value is wrong and thus the fonts larger than intended. If you go into the Advanced > Config Editor preference settings, find layout.css.dpi and set it to a default of 96 by double-clicking on that entry. If this doesn't work, reduce that value to shrink the sizes. I've seen cases where KDE passed a wrong DPI value down to Thunderbird and therefore caused issues with the dialog display.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Jens, can you be more specific of which panel? And do you also see this with latest beta? http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/

Comment 5

[Steffen Wilberg]

A screenshot wouldn't hurt either...

Comment 6

[Jens Herrmann]

rsx11m was right, my locale was not configured properly. I have fixed that and cannot reproduce the bug anymore now.

Comment 7

[rsx11m]

Glad that it helped, but what exactly did you have to fix with the locale?

Comment 8

[Jens Herrmann]

I had LANG="de_DE.utf8@euro" and changed it to de_DE.utf8

Comment 9

[rsx11m]

Ok, so that's probably a font or character-encoding issue then.
-> WFM per comment #6.