1054667 - Table col/row difficult to delete. Please make circle/x a larger size or use hotkey.

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[jayhanson]

When I forward an email message, a col or row in a table is quite difficult to delete because the icon is so small. Please Either make circle/x a larger size or use hotkey.

Thanks,
Jay

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

WOW, the bugmaster himself just discovered a new feature in TB, thanks for that... ;)

I knew the deleting part, but I never realized those tiny little arrows can add columns and rows, damn!
I agree with jayhanson that all of these are really too tiny, and tooltips would be helpful, too...

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Actually, to make the click targets bigger shouldn't be that hard, but knowing where they are in the code is another story...

Neil, can you assist with finding a starting point in the editor code?

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #2)
> Actually, to make the click targets bigger shouldn't be that hard, but
> knowing where they are in the code is another story...
> 
> Neil, can you assist with finding a starting point in the editor code?

They're in editor/composer/res/EditorOverride.css in mozilla-central. They're extra-specially-anonymous elements, so I doubt that they could be given tooltips, but it should be pretty easy to upgrade the graphics for them.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Great! Thanks a lot Neil.

(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #3)
> They're in editor/composer/res/EditorOverride.css in mozilla-central.
> They're extra-specially-anonymous elements, so I doubt that they could be
> given tooltips, but it should be pretty easy to upgrade the graphics for
> them.

http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/editor/composer/res/EditorOverride.css#191
191 /* INLINE TABLE EDITING */

So that's where the images get hooked up:
200   background-image: url("resource://gre/res/table-add-column-before.gif");

And wow, these things are tiny indeed, 4px x 8px...
http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/editor/composer/res/table-add-column-before.gif

So the next step is probably to create bigger versions of the images.

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Micah, is it possible to do a quick and dirty fix here to make these overlay images bigger? Right now they are microscopic... for deleting/adding table cells/rows/etc. Insert a table in composition and place cursor inside to see them.

Images:

• https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/editor/composer/res

CSS:

• https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/editor/composer/res/EditorOverride.css

Comment 6

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

The compose window needs some UI rework but it's not a priority for this cycle.
We shouldn't ping developers or designers directly, please next time ping me and I can assess priority and necessity.