1844729 - TB 115: Event Editor Dialog Description Text Field Resizing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Gunter Ohrner]

Attachment: Screenshot_20230721_090349.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

In the calendar component, I opened an event's editor dialog and resized it because he description field was to small to display the whole text.

Actual results:

The description text field resizes horizontally, but not vertically, leaving lots of empty, unused space in the dialog while the user still is not able to see much of the description text. (See screenshot.)

Expected results:

The description text field should resize to utilize the available space and to allow the user to see more of the description if she increases the dialog size.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Needs gentle calendar love

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Needs gentle calendar love

Comment 3

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Vineet, can you try to make these calendar dialog text areas behave a bit nicer?
These dialogs are an old crusty mess so we're gonna rebuild them next year, but for now maybe allowing the text area to resize alongside the dialog container should be doable with some CSS flex attributes.

Comment 4

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

This is one of the many downfalls of the flexbox transition that happened in toolkit.
Marking this for a potential 115 uplift if it's something we can fix easily.

Comment 5

[Vineet Deo]

Attachment: Bug 1844729 - Event Description resizing to fill space of Event Summary Dialog and Attendee List correctly resizing when list is large. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I guess this is the same as bug 1854137?

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/df0d521eabfa
Event Description resizing to fill space of Event Summary Dialog and Attendee List correctly resizing when list is large. r=aleca,freaktechnik

Comment 9

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Please request uplift to 115.

Comment 12

[Vineet Deo]

Comment on attachment 9349524 [details]
Bug 1844729 - Event Description resizing to fill space of Event Summary Dialog and Attendee List correctly resizing when list is large. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

[Approval Request Comment]
Regression caused by (bug #): -
User impact if declined: Users will not be able to scroll through an event with a large attendee list, and users will have to excessively scroll when reading a long event description
Testing completed (on c-c, etc.): Tested on c-c.
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): -

Comment 14

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9349524 [details]
Bug 1844729 - Event Description resizing to fill space of Event Summary Dialog and Attendee List correctly resizing when list is large. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

[Triage Comment]
Approved for esr115

Comment 15

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Thunderbird 115.4.2:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr115/rev/c703306e513c