1776078 - Contact photo icons in contacts list should be larger to be useful for visual recognition

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Attachment: Screenshot 1: Contact photo too small

Contact photo icons in the list of contacts are needlessly tiny which effectively makes it all but impossible to use them for visual recognition. Right now they are more like decorative colored spots.

Actual:

• On my rather large screen, the icon renders with a diameter of 5 mm.
• All but impossible to recognize the person on the photo even when the face has maximum size.

Expected:

• The icon should be larger to make it useful for visual recognition.
• The icon could have up to double diameter (1 cm), which would be same height as the two text rows (Name, email). The height of a selected contact is 1.5 cm for me, so we'd still have sufficient margin around the icon.
• If double size for the icon looks too big, anything from resize factor 1.5 upwards would still help.

Comment 1

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Indeed, incorrect sizing due to the "compact" density.
Heads up, that using cm or mm is not really correct, and measurements should be done in pixel, since the metric system values can variate from screen to screen.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Alessandro Castellani [:aleca] from comment #1)

Indeed, incorrect sizing due to the "compact" density.

Thanks for confirming!

Heads up, that using cm or mm is not really correct, and measurements should be done in pixel, since the metric system values can variate from screen to screen.

Sure, I'm aware of that, was just mentioning those metrics for fast illustration (not for implementation), which looks sufficient for comparing the relative sizes (icon vs. contact item), and for presenting a sample real-life outcome.

What's your preferred/easiest way of measuring elements in pixels?

Comment 3

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Attachment: Bug 1776078 - [Address Book] Improve table view UI and density awareness of cards. r=darktrojan,Paenglab

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/894eb02fce5f
[Address Book] Improve table view UI and density awareness of cards. r=darktrojan,Paenglab

Comment 5

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Comment on attachment 9282731 [details]
Bug 1776078 - [Address Book] Improve table view UI and density awareness of cards. r=darktrojan,Paenglab

[Approval Request Comment]
Regression caused by (bug #): -
User impact if declined: Not greatly styled table layout in the new address book, as well as missing density awareness in the contacts list
Testing completed (on c-c, etc.): on c-c
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): low

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9282731 [details]
Bug 1776078 - [Address Book] Improve table view UI and density awareness of cards. r=darktrojan,Paenglab

[Triage Comment]
Approved for beta

Comment 7

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Thunderbird 103.0b5:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/3707434ff7a2

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9282731 [details]
Bug 1776078 - [Address Book] Improve table view UI and density awareness of cards. r=darktrojan,Paenglab

[Triage Comment]
Approved for esr102

Comment 9

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Thunderbird 102.0.3:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr102/rev/ae7eda77f45b