1892594 - Event Window is always too small

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1869167

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[benignpigeon]

Attachment: Screenshot 2024-04-20 224028.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I double clicked on an event in the calendar and the popup window is too small.

Actual results:

1/2 of the time it's fine [when the description is short] but the other half with medium-long descriptions the popup window is just not of an adequate size and I need to enlarge it to see the edit button. This is confusing for my parents when they can't find the edit button since they need to first enlarge the window/scroll down.

Discussed here too but not reported: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/calendar-gt-edit-event-windows-size-too-small/td-p/53595

Expected results:

The popup window should
(a) Always display the edit button regardless of size
(b) Be of a larger size if the description is longer

Comment 1

[Anje]

Try this to fix:
Help > Troubleshooting Information
In 'Application Basics' section - half way - Profile Folders - click on 'Open Folder'

Exit Thunderbird

Locate and delete these files:

• session.json
• xulstore.json

Restart Thunderbird.

REport on results.

Comment 2

[benignpigeon]

(In reply to Anje from comment #1)

Try this to fix:
Help > Troubleshooting Information
In 'Application Basics' section - half way - Profile Folders - click on 'Open Folder'

Exit Thunderbird

Locate and delete these files:

• session.json
• xulstore.json

Restart Thunderbird.

REport on results.

Thanks for the reply, I deleted the following files and the bug still persisted. The events window/dialogue box opened was still too small to see the edit button

Comment 3

[Anje]

Whilst mine is ok for height, I've been testing the resize.
It would seem that no matter what height I choose, the height is always reset to a default.
I've tried altering the height in the xulstore.json file, but it gets over written.
This part of the content:

"chrome://calendar/content/calendar-event-dialog.xhtml":{"calendar-event-window":{"screenX":"186","screenY":"22","width":"532","height":"651"},"

The width however can be resized and it's remembered and correctly set in the xulstore.json file.

Open your xulstore.json file using a simple text editor like Notepad.
In your xulstore.json file
Edit > Find - type : calendar-event-dialog
What do you see for that section? Same line as I pasted in above.

What OS are you using?
What screen resolution and what scale?
Does computer use eg: 4K graphics?

Comment 4

[benignpigeon]

On further inspection it appears to be any calendar event with a description

test 1 with no description is fine: https://imgur.com/a/HbWqzNG

whereas test 2 with a description is not: https://imgur.com/a/Pz2eVg7

Comment 5

[benignpigeon]

(In reply to Anje from comment #3)

Whilst mine is ok for height, I've been testing the resize.
It would seem that no matter what height I choose, the height is always reset to a default.
I've tried altering the height in the xulstore.json file, but it gets over written.
This part of the content:

"chrome://calendar/content/calendar-event-dialog.xhtml":{"calendar-event-window":{"screenX":"186","screenY":"22","width":"532","height":"651"},"

The width however can be resized and it's remembered and correctly set in the xulstore.json file.

Open your xulstore.json file using a simple text editor like Notepad.
In your xulstore.json file
Edit > Find - type : calendar-event-dialog
What do you see for that section? Same line as I pasted in above.

What OS are you using?
What screen resolution and what scale?
Does computer use eg: 4K graphics?

my os is Windows 11 with default resolution and scale and doesn't use 4k graphics

Comment 6

[benignpigeon]

(In reply to Anje from comment #3)

Whilst mine is ok for height, I've been testing the resize.
It would seem that no matter what height I choose, the height is always reset to a default.
I've tried altering the height in the xulstore.json file, but it gets over written.
This part of the content:

"chrome://calendar/content/calendar-event-dialog.xhtml":{"calendar-event-window":{"screenX":"186","screenY":"22","width":"532","height":"651"},"

The width however can be resized and it's remembered and correctly set in the xulstore.json file.

Open your xulstore.json file using a simple text editor like Notepad.
In your xulstore.json file
Edit > Find - type : calendar-event-dialog
What do you see for that section? Same line as I pasted in above.

What OS are you using?
What screen resolution and what scale?
Does computer use eg: 4K graphics?

The code you have used for calendar-event-dialogue only effects the create an event window and not the viewing an event window.

Comment 7

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

This was fixed by bug 1869167, it will be available in the next ESR in July.