182715 - Widgets in preferences dialogs clipped when Windows message box font is Verdana

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Tony Daniel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

Various preference dialog boxes have layout problems when the message box font
is set to font:Verdana, size:8.

1. Navigator/History has the "Clear History" and "Clear Location Bar" buttons
clipped as well as the grouping rectangles that surround those sections.
2. All three sections of Navigator/Helper Applications are severely clipped. 
The word "Reset" in the "Reset" button from the "Opening files" group is almost
entirely clipped.  All the text in the "Plug-in Finder Service" group is
clipped.  All three buttons in the "Specify which application..." group are clipped.
3. "Mail & Newsgroups" main panel has an edit box clipped and the grouping
rectangles clipped.
4. "Main & Newsgroups"/Windows has its grouping rectangle clipped.
5. "Main & Newsgroups"/"Message Display" has both grouping rectangles and the
color chooser clipped.
6. "Main & Newsgroups"/"Return Receipts" has its grouping rectangle and its
three drop-down choosers clipped.
7. Advanced/Cache has all three buttons and its grouping rectangle clipped.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Changing to Verdana 8 for message box text requires going to "Display
Properties" and selecting its Appearance tab.  The easiest way to get to
"Display Properties" is to right-click on the desktop, though it is also
available through the control panel.  At this point in Windows XP (unlike
Windows 98), you have to click on the "Advanced" button to get to the right
dialog box, called "Advanced Appearance" in Windows XP.  The item drop-down has
a choice called "Message Box"; after selecting that, you can switch to Verdana
and font size 8.

In Mozilla, all that's necessary is to pick Edit/Preferences from the menu and
then select the right item as mentioned previously.
Actual Results:  
(see details for list of clipped items)


Verdana is one of the wider fonts; others such as Comic Sans MS do not have this
problem.  But Verdana was specifically designed for computer screens (see
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/fonts/verdana/default.htm), so it seems
worthwhile to fix this problem.

Comment 1

[Bharat]

Confirming with 1.7.2 on WinXP.

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

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