168318 - Transient preference window the wrong size

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 138680

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Charles Simpson]

When opening the preferences dialog, Mozilla tells X that the window is
transient, and gives it a size.  A number of window managers will then take that
size, create a window, and not allow a user to change it.  This only is an issue
because the preference box is the wrong size for some of the dialogs (depending
on the font) and some of the options/buttons become unreadable (pushed off the
edge of the window).  This is especially an issue with the the "history,"
"helper applications," and "cache" dialogs.

This is not a really new issue; it goes back to at least Mozilla 1.0.

To reproduce:
1. Change default fonts to something a little wider (verdana, for example).  I
believe that this is controled by gtk.
2. Open Mozilla
3. Open Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Helper Applications

Actual result: buttons are not all in the window, buttons are cut off

Expected result: window should be the right size to include the entire button

Comment 1

[Charles Simpson]

Attachment: Screenshot of Preferences window

Maybe I wasn't too clear about the problem.  It's on 1.2a (pulled from CVS) and
compiled on linux.  The attatched shot shows the dialog for Preferences ->
Helper Applications.  Notice the three buttons on the right hand side and how
they are cut off.  This isn't really a show stopping bug, but something that
could turn off other, less tolerant users.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138680 ***

Comment 3

[timeless]

vrfy dupe