160149 - fixed-width windows system fonts cause preferences dialog content to cut off

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 133627

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Rob Johnson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    20020530

When the windows font is set to a fixed width or wide font the preferences
dialog content does not fit in the dialog window. 

Possible related bugs (4911,6455,18806,19092,20244)

Is there any good reason the preference dialog was made non-resizeable?  


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set windows 'Message Box' font to 'Courier New'
2.Open Mozilla preferences dialog


Actual Results:  Some dialog tabs are cut off (see screenshots
http://www.script-source.net/bugzilla/moz_prefs.html)

Expected Results:  Preference content should fit the dialog, or dialog should be
resizeable

Comment 1

[timeless]

you missed bug 80392.

yes, the dialog must fit in a 640x480 screen with a taskbar and margins
(similarly for macos). Any time the panel fails to fit, people are requested to
check bug 80392 and file if a they can't find the panel in the dependency tree.

Comment 2

[Mark Grosberg]

I see this on Mac OS X (Jaguar) with no changes to the font settings at all. At
least the dialog should not clip objects. 

My build: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Comment 3

[Michael Lefevre]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133627 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup