309055 - Avoid dynamic resizing of the message headers in the message pane

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Ian Neal]

Add a hidden pref which ensures we create a minimum number of header values in
the message pane. If the number of visible headers in the message is less than
this number, we'll have extra grey space left over in the header pane.

By ensuring a minimum, you help reduce how often the grey header box has to
resize itself when clicking from message to message.

This mailnews equivalent of TB bug 233944

Comment 1

[Ian Neal]

Attachment: Add minNumHeaders pref patch v0.1

This patch:
* Adds minNumHeaders pref to mailnews as per equivalent TB patch

Comment 2

[Karsten Düsterloh]

I may be missing the point, but this seems very overcomplicated and superfluous
to me: if you want the header pane to have a minimum size, just add something
like this to your userChrome.css:

#msgHeaderView .header-part1
{
  min-height: 25em;
}

No need for a pref or any JS at all...

Comment 3

[Ian Neal]

Changing a pref is a lot easier for deployment purposes than changing some CSS
especially if you are using some for of centralised config file.

Comment 4

[Karsten Düsterloh]

How often does one change the header pane height? And then even centralized?
You could always provide a customized default userChrome.css with a fixed size.

The patch does really add more complexity and "bloat" ;-) then the "feature" is
worth, thus WONTFIXing.