297364 - make the filter/search tag popups work better for long tags

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

The saved search window should be resizable. When a user has more than four
terms in a saved search, it becomes difficult to manage them because you have to
scroll to see them all. Making the window resizable would make it more usable.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

this is a modal dialog. Are there any examples of us allowing modal dialogs to
be resizeable? The examples I've found so far don't allow you to resize them. I
wonder if that's something that comes with being a modal dialog. 

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

moving off the 1.1 blocker list since I haven't figured out a way to make a
modal dialog resizeable.

Comment 3

[flaimo]

the new tag feature adds another problem. since tags are not hierarchical I have to name my tags something like that:
• category – subcategory – tagname 1
• category – subcategory – tagname 2
…

since the dialog box is not resizeable there is no way to find out which tag I have chosen to search for. this makes building saved searches based on tags basically impossible.

Comment 4

[flaimo]

Attachment: problem with long tags and the saved search dialog

Comment 6

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

There is no need to make the dialog resizable to fix the current bug.

You just need to make the right menulist(s) in mailWidgets.xml#searchvalue
carry the sizetopopup="none" attribute.

Comment 7

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> There is no need to make the dialog resizable to fix the current bug.

The attached screenshot isn't what this bug is about (at least, not exactly).

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Since there doesn't seem to be a solution for the original bug, i think i'll hijack this to fix that problem.

Comment 9

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Attachment: proposed fix

Comment 10

[Ian Neal]

Comment on attachment 696392 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix

This seems to look better to me. Neil might have a different view though.

Comment 11

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 696392 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix

I have to say that I don't find this very appealing for people with short tags, although it might be possible to fix this by copying the menulist's width to the menupopup's minimum width.

The only other alternative I could think of, which would probably be less popular, would be to set crop="center" on the affected elements.

Comment 12

[Kent James (:rkent)]

The issues here seem to be the aesthetics of the user interface, and possible XUL styles to fix it - neither of which are my area of expertise. Magnus, could you try to find another reviewer?

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I had to check :)
still happens