117048 - Default Help window doesn't fit in 640*480 (or 800*600!)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: 2001122508, Mac OS 9.1

To reproduce:
1.  Switch to a resolution of 800*600 or lower (in the unlikely event that you
    are not already using such a resolution).
2.  Create a new profile.
3.  Open the Help window.

What you should see:
*   A window which is small enough to fit completely on the screen, and small
    enough to have alongside your work while you are following instructions in
    it -- ideally, about 200 pixels wide and about 350 pixels high.

What you actually see:
*   A window which is too large to fit completely on the screen.

Unfortunately, Mozilla's Help window cannot be made narrow enough to be useful 
until the silly contents panel is removed. However, it should still be made 
small enough to fit on the screen.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I filed bug 117052 on getting rid of the contents pane. The exact fix for this 
bug depends on how, and how quickly, that bug gets resolved.

Comment 2

[Håkan Waara]

walk84 / oescheger: wanna take this?

Comment 3

[Håkan Waara]

reassign

Comment 4

[artur serra salvat]

The problem also happens in windows 98. Only when you change to 1024* 768 you
can see the whole help window

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 135341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[:deanis74]

Platform/OS -> All/All

I see this also on Win2K.  The window is too tall for 800x600.

Comment 7

[Joel Nelson (don't send email)]

Also exists on WinXP.  Too tall for 800x600.

Comment 8

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Attachment: shrinking help window: height=590

How's this?

Comment 9

[:deanis74]

Is 590 still too tall on Windows if you have the taskbar visible, especially if
your font's a little larger?  Why not use 550 to be safe?

Comment 10

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

*** Bug 145112 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[rudman]

Needed for NS rtm and Moz 1.0, setting milestone and impact accordingly (adt2).

Comment 12

[andreww]

Comment on attachment 79638 [details] [diff] [review]
shrinking help window: height=590

r=andreww

Comment 13

[Blake Ross]

Comment on attachment 79638 [details] [diff] [review]
shrinking help window: height=590

sr=blake

Comment 14

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

*** Bug 148997 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Marking as FIXED (on trunk and branch). This little patch was shuttled in with
some other stuff inadvertently. 

Comment 16

[:deanis74]

I'm pretty sure the task bar in Windows XP (heck, any windows for that matter)
is higher than 10 pixels, and by default it's always visible.  So for a lot of
WinXP users that run at 800x600, the window will still extend off-screen.

Comment 17

[wzeikat]

the problem is still there in 2002060415. did i misunderstand that "marked as
fixed" comment?

Comment 18

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

I took Dean's good advice and shrunk it to 550. If it still looks oversized,
that may be because you have persisted some manual resizing you did at some
point in the past?

In any case, I checked these changes in late yesterday, so 2002060415 may not
have picked them up.

Comment 19

[wzeikat]

i have only now found out that profile information is (now?!) stored in a
subfolder of win98's %windir%. after deleting that folder, the default help
window is not oversized anymore.

it may be out of place here, but i find it a bad idea to store that information
there and not in mozilla's program folder. i overwrite my windows partition
rather frequently and have the mozilla folder on a different partition. can i
configure the profile folder location? i happily use win32 talkback zip's in
order to prevent  registry entries and the like ...

Comment 20

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 147289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 21

[Brant Gurganus]

v