301858 - Unable to select character encoding for Outgoing/Incoming Mail from dropdown

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 315057

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, defect)

Description

[Adam Guthrie]

1. Go to Edit > Preferences > Display > Fonts tab.
2. Close the Preferences window.
3. Open it back up.

The two dropdown lists for character encodings will not open when you click them
making it impossible to select a different character encoding. Thunderbird must
be restared to fix this.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Attachment: screenshot of the dropdown widgets

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

We still need a padding on the right side. But how can we get the correct one?
Different skins/themes on OS level have a different width for the dropdown
marker. How do other applications handle this? Which value they use?

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Attachment: Adjust the right margin of menulist-label

I didn't really know which right margin we'll need. So I checked with different
OS themes on KDE and think that 25px should be enough. With that margin we have
a small empty area between the label and dropmarker.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

I don't think we need these CSS patches.

Once we get a good fix for  Bug 285076 this problem will go away.

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

Fixed by bug 285076.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Adam this bug is NOT fixed! Using a CVS and the latest nightly build of
Thunderbird [version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050903)] still shows this issue at
'Composition|Adressing'. When I resize the preferences dialog "Collected
Addresses" is still drawn above the menulist dropdown. The fix for bug 285076
shows no difference here.

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Adam this bug is NOT fixed! Using a CVS and the latest nightly build of
> Thunderbird [version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050903)] still shows this issue at
> 'Composition|Adressing'. When I resize the preferences dialog "Collected

Sorry, I ment version 1.6a1 (20050903)

Comment 8

[Adam Guthrie]

Henrik, did you mean to comment in bug 301854? The issue of the character
encoding dropdown in "Display | Fonts" is fixed for me (which is the only issue
addressed in this bug).

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Ok, after talking on IRC we can mark this bug as fixed. Opening the dropdown
works fine and that was the real issue on that bug.

Comment 10

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 315057 ***