1743842 - Addressbook Birthday input can overlap the Age input

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Henry Wilkes (they/them) [:henry-x]]

Steps to Reproduce

1. Go to (new) addressbook.
2. Edit contact.
3. Scroll to "Birthday".
4. Shrink the window horizontally.

Result

The birthday selector content overflows and overlaps the "Age" input.

Expect

Either the view should not shrink any further, or the "Age" should be on a new line.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Attachment: Screencast 1: NewAB_AgeOverlaysYear.mp4

Good find!

(In reply to Henry Wilkes [:henry] from comment #0)

Result

The birthday selector content overflows and overlaps the "Age" input.

Yes they overlap (although for me it's the "Age" input which overlaps the "Year" input, as seen in the screencast...).

Expect

Either the view should not shrink any further,

That would make the horizontal space demands of the contact pane even worse than now - not ideal.

or the "Age" should be on a new line.

Worth trying, but that would shift all inputs below that, hopefully not too much fuzz.

Perhaps ideally, the "Age" input would just stop moving when it has reached the right side of the "Year" input, but still allow all the rest of the view to be shrinked more horizontally until the vertical scrollbar kicks in. What would it take to enable such behaviour?

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Mass-adding regression keyword to applicable AB bugs.

#20220530ABRegressionKeyword01

Comment 3

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

This doesn't happen anymore, right Thomas?

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Alessandro Castellani [:aleca] from comment #3)

This doesn't happen anymore, right Thomas?

It cannot happen anymore now, because the entire age input has been removed - is that by design? Why? It's much easier when you enter birthdays whose year you don't know by just entering age, and calculating the year is an unneeded extra and error-prone step...

Comment 5

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Unfortunately, "age" is not a valid vcard field, that's why we have the only the "Birthday" date, which is what vcard allows.
The whole concept of writing just the age of a contact is very weird in general, and it feels a bit like a remnant of those old forums when birthdays and other dates weren't required.
It's also not really useful having a static field users need to manually update every year for all their contacts in different occasions.
Better to drop it.