108798 - Default window size wrong (too small) in Mail/News Acct Settings

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration, defect)

Description

[Jim Avera]

The initial size of teh Mail & News Account Settings dialog window
is too small to hold all the widgets, and so some parts are hidden.

See the attached screen shot.

This may be a general problem.  See for example bug 102823.
It may also depend on certain font settings.

To reproduce:
1. Edit-Preferences->Appearance:Fonts and set them like mine
   (don't know if this is truly relevant):
    Fonts for:Western  
    Proportional: Serif.   Proportional size = 16
    Serif: adobe-times-iso8859-1
    Sans-serif: adobe-helvetica-iso8859-1
    Cursive, Fantasy, Monospace all set to adobe-courier-iso8859-1
    Monospace size = 12
    "Allow documents to use other fonts" is checked.
    Display resolution: System setting
    (not sure what that is, but I'm running 1280x1024)
    Click OK.
2. Click on a mailto: link (Tasks->Mail & Newsgroups may be equivalent)
3. Edit->Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings

Results: Bottom widgets are not visible because window is too small.
         If the window is resized, then subsequent invocations of the
         dialog use the new size, i.e., it is okay.  So I think the
         problem is with the default size.

Expected results: Somehow all windows should be made to have a default 
         size big enough to contain all objects in the window.


I will attach a screen shot.

Comment 1

[Jim Avera]

Attachment: Screen shot of initial window. Note lower buttons are not visible.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->mail news

Comment 3

[Vadim Berezniker]

you didn't specify your build # in your original report.

can you still reproduce this problem in a recent nightly or 0.9.9?

Comment 4

[Jim Avera]

The problem appears to be fixed in 2002040510

Comment 5

[Vadim Berezniker]

i think there was a patch recently that changed how largers fonts are handled a bit.

mraking worksforme. reopen if you reproduce this problem later.

Comment 6

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified WFM per reporter's comments.