1390085 - add event dialog box displayed only partly on win10

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Dialogs, defect)

Description

[klaus]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
Build ID: 20170803103124

Steps to reproduce:

press add event  button


Actual results:

dialog box is cut off at the right. Dialog box cannot be expanded to take full screen size.

At the right, it is cut off in the middle of delete ('Löschen' is displayed as 'Lösch'), the calendar choosing drop down box is cut off before the down arrow to open listbox appears.

I just noticed the dialog can be manually expanded in size by pulling a little field at the very bottom right of the dialog box. For Windows users, that is very unintuitive, I never saw this anywhere else. Also, it is coloured gray - Windows uses gray for the inactive actions, so this little box does not really invite to be noticed.




Expected results:

In the end, the dialog should be displayed fully anytime it is opened. Even if pulling the little gray box is a workaround to get everything displayed - the default action should be to display everything without additional user interaction required..

Comment 1

[klaus]

I mean there is no 'button' to expand to full screen near the little cross to close when I write: Dialog box cannot be expanded to take full screen size

it seems editing the description of the bug does not work even if I press edit.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Klaus do you still see this when using a current version?

Comment 3

[klaus]

yes in most current: if there are several calendars, the drop down arrow of the calendar listbox is outside the displayed dialog area

OS is Win 10 1903

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

John, does this reproduce for you?

Comment 5

[Chris Ramsden]

I can't see any problem here. Could someone provide a screen dump?

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Could someone provide a screen dump?

Comment 7

[klaus]

Attachment: cutoff dialog design

as requested a screenshot of the dialog: win 10, 24 inch monitor

Comment 8

[klaus]

Lösc: delete button is cut off (but recognisable - not critical).

calendar selection: dropdown arrow is not displayed - so nobody can know there are other calendars. I know, but would my wife know?

Gegenvorschläge verbi (checkbox at bottom): users not familiar with invitation process might not know what to use it for.

Comment 9

[Chris Ramsden]

Thank you.

The text string labels in your German language version are very much longer than my en-GB strings. Additionally, I set my toolbar buttons to use icons only. Maybe that's why I don't see your problem on any of my systems.

To test if localization is part of the issue are you able to check with...

a) an English locale?
b) toolbar buttons set to icons (no text)?

Maybe the default width for the dialogue is hard-coded to a figure that worked for an English-speaking designer.

In my admittedly limited experience, it's hard to get a GUI to respect all the possible variations of text size, text string length, screen size and resolution, plus the challenges of different platforms (OS, desktop environment) etc, etc. I've seen breakages of this type (text not fitting to buttons) just between different flavours of Windows. And what do you do if it simply will not fit? At the very least, you want a scroll bar somewhere to hint that there is more material hiding out of sight.

You may be able to set a minimum width for this dialogue via a userChrome.css file. (I have had to do something similar with the Account Settings dialogue, which was taller than my low-resolution laptop's screen). But it is non-trivial to discover the appropriate property's name and attributes.

e.g.

/* fix for too-tall dialogue where buttons are not visible, being off the bottom */
#accountManager { min-height: 58em !important; }

Comment 10

[klaus]

The true bug is the dropdown arrow missing on the calendar list. So users cannot see if there is a choice of calendars. There are non IT related users who would not be able to guess.

Left to the calendar dropdown list is Kategorie and Kalender. I guess in the English version it is Category and Calendar. The German is 1 character longer than the English. Localisation should be able to cover that.

Whether hardcoded or not, the dialog should be so wide that the dropdown arrow is shown. It is visible on the category dropdown but not on calendar dropdown.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Klaus, does this still reproduce?

Comment 12

[klaus]

looks ok on 78.10.2 with short calendar names. Also resizing is now according to windows standards

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for the update.
You should close your report when you can no longer reproduce.