238425 - Ability to keep thread pane (message list) size constant.

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Biju]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040310 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040310 Firefox/0.8.0+

If we resize thunderbird application window the width/height of message list
pane will also get adjusted along with message pane, this is annoying.

I am attaching patch to correct this issue.

I am also providing a setting for this in preference window.
at Tools\Options...\General(Mail & Newgroupss)\General Settings
[ ] Resize only preview pane, when I resize main window



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Biju]

Attachment: pref-mailnews.xul

Comment 2

[Biju]

Attachment: pref-mailnews.xul.patch

Comment 3

[Biju]

Attachment: pref-mailnews.dtd

Comment 4

[Biju]

Attachment: pref-mailnews.dtd.patch

Comment 5

[Biju]

Attachment: mailWindow.js

Comment 6

[Biju]

Attachment: mailWindow.js.patch

Comment 7

[Biju]

function setResizeOnlyPreview() in mailWindow.js should be called from the
routine that changes screen layout.


function setResizeOnlyPreview(){
 
  var e,status=false;
  try{
    status = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/preferences-service;1"]
              .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefService)
               .getBranch("").getBoolPref("mailnews.resizeonlypreview"); 
  }catch(e){}

  document.getElementById('messagepanebox')
           .setAttribute('flex', status ? 9000 : 1);

  return status;
}

window.setTimeout("setResizeOnlyPreview()", 1000);

Comment 8

[Alex Hirzel]

*** Bug 238422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Biju]

Attachment: fixedpanedemo.zip

Comment 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 11

[Biju]

still an issue

Comment 12

[Nikolay Shopik]

Biju, set flags on your patches for review.