293800 - Can't edit Properties on card in Address Book - low screen resolution.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63941

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[John Gibson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I have bad vision, so I use low screen res [1024x768] and large fonts.

When attempting to edit Properties on a Card in the Address book, the bottom
portion of the window is cut off and I don't have access to the 'Save' button,
so I can't save my changes.

Workaround:  Set my screen to a higher res.  This works, but then I have to read
my screen with a magnifying lens.  8-)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set low screen res [1024.768] and crank up system fonts to Large [120 DPI]
2.Try to save edited Properties for a Card in Address book.
3.You can't because there's no save button... 



Expected Results:  
If you can detect that the Properties window doesn't fit on the screen, allow
the part of the window containing editable fields to be scrolled. Save button
should be visible at all times.

Comment 1

[Raanan Barzel]

Confirming for TB 1.0+ (20050621)

Problem is also present with normal-size font on 800x600 screen size

Worked correctly in 1.0.2 

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[John Gibson]

September 27, 2005:
This is still a problem in version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050908)
I consider this to be the kind of usability issue that must be addressed if
Thunderbird can be seen as a viable tool for people with disabilities [and thus
need to operate their machine in a low screen res].
-jg-

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This is a duplicate of the core address book bug 63941. Marking as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63941 ***