203147 - text doesn't fit in create new profile window - panel is too small

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, defect)

Description

[Wolfgang Baumgartner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; de-AT; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030423
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; de-AT; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030423

When creating a new profile the window where to put profile name is too small.
So the buttons for creating new directory aren't visible.
(1280x1024, small fonts, modern theme)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Wolfgang Baumgartner]

you can find a screenshot here:
http://www.baumgartner-empl.de/create-profile.gif

Comment 2

[Grace Bush]

I can reproduce this with profile name containing more than 44 characters. 
Checking to see if there is a limit to size of profile name- 

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

From original developer: 

As far as I know, there is no limit on the number of characters. However, I
remember that there is (was) a bug that requested us to limit the name to 32
characters (folder names longer than that have some problems) so that it works
well on Macintosh.
I think that is bug 59524

Comment 4

[Wolfgang Baumgartner]

I don't think it's bug 59524.


The folder name has 12 characters ("Default User") - the


default value of mozilla which is shorter than 32.

Comment 5

[Grace Bush]

sorry for misunderstanding- bug 59524 is the only bug that exists prior to this
one that deals with putting a limit on size of profile- which probably should be
size of profile 'path' 
I believe this is valid bug- path should wrap and not push buttons off UI and it
is easily reproducable 

Comment 6

[Marcus Bayer]

I can reproduce this bug as well (and it quite annoys me:)

OS: Win XP Pro (german)
Moz: at least v1.3.1 and v1.4

Description:
When creating a new profile, the profile manager suggests a default path. In my
case, it's "C:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\{MyAccountName}\Anwendungsdaten\Mozilla\Profiles\default user". If
my account name is less than 13 chars long or contains spaces, the path will be
split up in several lines and the "Region selection" and "Choose folder" buttons
are reachable.

In other words, if your default path contains a segment of 68 characters without
spaces, those buttons disappear. (unfortunately, 'Administrator' is long enough
so that I'm not able to change this profile path)

I like to suggest a few possible solutions:
- allow the profile manager window to be sizeable
- allow word wrapping at spaces and directory delimiters ('/' or '\')
- use abbreviations (not recommendable, IMHO)

One final remark: I guess it's not easy to reproduce this bug using english
versions of WinXP (and probably NT) because the folder 'application data'
contains a space while it's german counterpart 'Anwendungsdateien' does not.
So your account name has to be much longer before any problems occur.

Comment 7

[Marcus Bayer]

... and yet another remark:
While using for the first time, the profile manager tries to create a profile
directory called 'default user', but actually a directory named 'default' (no
trailing space character!) will be created. I guess that it's related to the
problem mentioned above...

Comment 8

[Grace Bush]

*** Bug 211880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Hermann Schwab]

A very similar problem just has been solved in Bug 123370
	Entering a new profile name pushes the buttons out of the dialog box

Comment 10

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Fixed via bug 220891. The buttons are now on the bottom of the wizard so they
aren't pushed out of the visible area when the profile name is long.

Comment 11

[Grace Bush]

verified fixed build 2004031708