257584 - Manage Subscriptions: Unable to see entire RSS feed name in Store Feed Articles

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Seen on version 0.7+ (20040830), 10.3.5

STR:

1. Go to manage Subscriptions
2. Click on an existing RSS feed and then Edit. In my case I had numberous Yahoo
news feeds already set up
3. Click on the Store feed article dropdown and try to highlight another RSS feed
4. Observe that you are not able to see enough of the text to know which RSS
feed you are selecting.

Tracy looked at this in Windows and it doesn't seem as bad, but on Mac it could
be frustrating for users who have multiple feeds set up.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marcia, could you add a screenshot of what you see?

fwiw, this doesn't seem to be too bad an issue on linux (looking at 0.8 bits).

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Attachment: Shot of problem

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

marcia will check other platforms to see if behavior is similar.

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

this seems more exacerbated on Mac. could this be fixed on the Mac pinstripe
theme level?

Comment 5

[Kevin Gerich]

how does this look with the default Mac theme?

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> how does this look with the default Mac theme?

there's a screenshot in this bug, attachment 159650 [details]. the dropmenu seems narrow...

Comment 7

[Kevin Gerich]

Scott, can you give me a pointer here? I'd like to widen the menulist and text
fields, but I'm not sure which CSS file to put the rules in.. 

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

Here you go Kevin:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mail/extensions/newsblog/skin/mac/subscriptions.css

we just need to make the dialog wider on the mac:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/mail/extensions/newsblog/content/subscriptions.xul#45

Comment 9

[Kevin Gerich]

Using subscribe.css I can widen the subscription dialog but not the feed
properties (feed-properties.xul) dialog, which has the problem. Do we need a
feed-properties.css?

Comment 10

[Scott MacGregor]

Since it's just the one style rule Kevin, I'd probably just fix this using a
platform ifdef for feed-properties.xul:

#ifdef XP_MACOSX
  style="width: **some em***"
#else
  style="width: 30em;"
#endif

if you give me the desired width for the feed properties dialog on OS X, I can
check this (or you can if you want).

Comment 11

[Kevin Gerich]

OK, how about 55em?

Comment 12

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: make the feed properties dialog wider on the mac

Comment 13

[Scott MacGregor]

ok the feed properties dialog is now wider for Mac OS X (55ems) branch and trunk

Comment 14

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

much better with recent mac builds --vrfy'ing fixed with 2004120102-0.9.