289118 - Short events are difficult to read in Day View due to accurate height and fixed page height

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 290325

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Rowan Beentje]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12
Build Identifier: Sunbird/0.2 Gecko/20050203

(Note: some improvements may occur as a result of bug #236551)

A client with 15-minute appointments is trying to use Sunbird, generally with success.  However, as the 
day view is fixed in height, and he uses a standard screen size (1024x768), a fifteen-minute 
appointment event is unreadable in the at-a-glance day view.

Obviously, mousing over the events works, but this defeats the purpose!

This kind of behavior - exacerbated for many short appointments - would benefit hugely from being 
able to set the height of hours in the day view.  If the hour boundaries showed the resize cursor when 
moused over, and a resize applied to every hour, this would allow a "day view" to be twice the height of 
the visible calendar window, making calendars far more useful at-a-glance.

This would also be of great benefit to those with smaller screens.

Logging as a feature request, although "unreadable text" (short events clip the title) is imho a bug.  If 
the title could be displayed whatever the height of the event, that would in many ways be a nicer - and 
easier - fix, but prone to cause more issues with multiple chronologically adjacent events.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a 15-minute (or shorter) event
2. Resize the calendar window to smaller than 1280x1024
Actual Results:  
The title of the event is clipped to the bounds of the (very short) event box as the day scales to fit the 
window

Expected Results:  
Either:
 - Set a minimum day view height, scrolling the window beyond this point
 - Draw the first line of titles whatever the event size
 - Allow configuration of day view hour-height or total-height
 - Show events proportionally only up to a minimum height

Comment 1

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 2

[Victor Engmark]

See attached image for demonstration (2 30 minute tasks).

Another suggested fix:
Make the height of the table cell(s) autofit the text height.

Comment 3

[Victor Engmark]

Attachment: Two 30-minute tasks, with text cropped at the bottom

Comment 4

[Victor Engmark]

Comment on attachment 251436 [details]
Two 30-minute tasks, with text cropped at the bottom

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061006 Sunbird/0.3

Comment 5

[gekacheka]

Bug 366989 (Grid controls) is working on ways to 
'zoom-in' (expand grid cells; decrease hours in view) and 
'zoom-out' (shrink grid cells; increase hours in view).