1091324 - Vertical scrollbar of the in-content preferences gets clipped when the window is short

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1036434

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Attachment: Screenshot of bug

See screenshot.

I think this is the fault of the <stack> that is used.

It sounds like a lot of work, but I think the real solution here is to ditch the <stack> and the two direct children and replace them with HTML. We don't need the <stack> for showing and hiding the panes, as we already do that with hidden="true". The subdialog is shown via visiblity:visible/hidden; so that also doesn't necessitate the <stack>.

Comment 1

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Well, this can be a wormhole. Changing all of the in-content prefs to be based off of an XHTML document is going to be a lot of work. Some widgets, such as <xul:richlistbox> use document.commandDispatcher which is only available in XUL documents (bug 329394 comment #2).

Maybe there is something that can be done with the current XUL styling to get this to work without doing a wholesale refactoring? Dao, do you have any ideas?

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me) from comment #0)
> Created attachment 8513954 [details]
> Screenshot of bug
> 
> See screenshot.
> 
> I think this is the fault of the <stack> that is used.
> 
> It sounds like a lot of work, but I think the real solution here is to ditch
> the <stack> and the two direct children and replace them with HTML. We don't
> need the <stack> for showing and hiding the panes, as we already do that
> with hidden="true".

It sounds like the stack is redundant anyway and could be dropped without switching to HTML.