1570882 - Buttons do not fit in the "Customize New Mail Alert" dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1497902

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Vladimir Svyatski]

Attachment: The screenshot of the problem on Windows 10

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the Thunderbird's options dialog (Thunderbird Menu > Options or Tools > Options from the main menu bar).
2. On the "General" tab click "Customize..." button in the "When new messages arrive" section.
3. The "Customize New Mail Alert" dialog will open.

Actual results:

The "OK" and "Cancel" buttons do not fit in the dialog's client area and look trimmed at the bottom.

Expected results:

Not only they should fit, but also have some margin at the bottom.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

This is for TB 60. We'll soon going to be releasing TB 60, so I don't think we will fix this. Richard?

Comment 2

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Vladimir, do you use a scaled desktop? It's known that toolkit has some issues with scaling. With newer TBs we switched to the preferences in a tab which work better with scaling.

TB 60 can use the prefs in tab when you open the options and then go to Advanced/General and click on "Config Editor...". Confirm the "Accept the Risk" and search for mail.preferences.inContent and toggle it to true by double-clicking it. Close the Options and reopen them. Now you should be in the prefs in tab.

Comment 3

[Vladimir Svyatski]

(In reply to Richard Marti (:Paenglab) from comment #2)

Vladimir, do you use a scaled desktop? It's known that toolkit has some issues with scaling. With newer TBs we switched to the preferences in a tab which work better with scaling.

TB 60 can use the prefs in tab when you open the options and then go to Advanced/General and click on "Config Editor...". Confirm the "Accept the Risk" and search for mail.preferences.inContent and toggle it to true by double-clicking it. Close the Options and reopen them. Now you should be in the prefs in tab.

Oh, I do. My desktop scaling is 125%, but I guess that was set automatically. My monitor resolution is 1920x1080, but its physical size is even less than 15.6'', I guess it's quite common with modern notebooks. That means that my DPI is definitely not equal to the sacred 96 and thus the glitch. And if I scale my desktop to 100% in the Windows settings, everything becomes to look awfully small, but the problem is not reproducible any longer.