1886615 - Consider a larger main content width in preferences

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, task, P3)

Description

[Jules Simplicio [:jules]]

Today preferences' main content has a width of 664px. This is a pretty cramped layout for more verbose locales, such as German, Italian, Portuguese... There doesn't seem to be a good reason behind this number, so we should investigate a larger content width that can better accommodate different locales.

Let's keep in mind that today we have UI where a label and its associated input rely on the content width to determine the middle gap between the two and increasing our content width will hurt this. We likely need to re-think some of these layouts.

Comment 1

[Jules Simplicio [:jules]]

Attachment: layout that will hurt from larger content width.png

Comment 2

[Jules Simplicio [:jules]]

Attachment: toggles will also hurt from a larger content width.png

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Attachment: Screenshot of German settings

I understand the concern, but as a counterpart, it becomes border-line unreadable when translation is particularly verbose (this is one of many examples from German).