299796 - Background image on start page isn't shown correctly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Markus Faßbender]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

TB 1.0+ (20050705)

Open TB with a high resolution 1280 x 1024 Pixel and than you will see, that the
gray background image stops after the last sentence on the page. Some nightlies
before the background goes to the bottom of the page. 

Maybe this regression comes with the change vom html to xhtml page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open TB with a high resolution (1280x1024)
2. Look at start page

Actual Results:  
Gray background isn't shown correctly.

Expected Results:  
Gray background should go to the bottom of the start page.

Comment 1

[Markus Faßbender]

Attachment: Sreenshot of start page

Comment 2

[Brett Leber]

(In reply to comment #0)
This would involve a much larger PNG, but the change is file size is most likely
negligible.

Also, please verify that the proper logo image is being used. On Windows trunk
build from 082905, the image is of the old Thunderbird.

Comment 3

[Brett Leber]

(In reply to comment #2)

My mistake: the issue is with the content of the start.xhtml body. To repeat the
startpage-back.png image throughout the window, the body needs to continue to
(and past) the edge of the window. This could be accomplished within the CSS
when describing the BODY of the document:

padding-bottom: 400px; /* extra padding that forces the image to repeat further */
overflow: hidden; /* hides the scroll bar, which may cause issues for small
screens, but hopefully not for the pane in TB */

Comment 4

[Markus Faßbender]

With the new layout in TB 2.0 this bug is fixed.