272956 - Thunderbird doesn't handle screen resolution changes

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Alexey Chernyak]

version 1.0RC1 (20041201) Win32

If you decrease your screen resolution, a portion of Thunderbird's message
display pane becomes hidden beyond the screen together with status bar.

Resizing Thunderbird window doesn't fix the problem. Restarting Thunderbird
doesn't fix the problem.
Moving the horisontal pane separator fixes the problem.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to Tools->Options->General->Window Configuration and select the middle layout.
2. Select a high resolution for your screen (eg. 1600x1200).
3. Resize the horisontal separator so that the message pane takes up a
reasonable ammount of space.
4. Decrease screen resolution (eg. to 800x600).

Current behaviour: message pane stays huge and extends beyond screen boundaries.
Status bar not visible.

Expected behaviour: message pane sizes down to accomodate the new resolution.
Status bar visible.

Note this happens only with the middle Mail window layout.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Won't make the 1.0 train, minusing.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This doesn't seem like a major issue, and doesn't happen very often. Marking wanted-, note we will still accept patches if anyone wishes to fix this.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Alexey, do you still encounter this problem?

Comment 4

[Alexey Chernyak]

Seems to be fixed.
Tested all layouts on both Windows and Linux.

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

We use WORKSFORME when there is no known patch that fixed the issue