359632 - Font Preferences + Large Fonts: size dropdowns too small

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

TB 2b1-1026

I'm not 100% sure about the Large Fonts issue, since I haven't switched back to a small fonts configuration to test (because switching is a big pain).

I think we just need a pixel or two more of width, altho the Min Font Size should be wide enough for the word "None" and I think there's more than two pixels needed for that.  Screenshot follows.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Attachment: screenshot

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Attachment: TB options at large font 1280x1024

FWIW

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I'm seeing a similar size issue on several other pages:
 * Display | Formatting: the Style dropdown isn't wide enough to display "Bold Italic" without an ellipsis; and the Size dropdown isn't wide enough for either "Regular" or "Smaller".
 * Composition | General: 'Forward message' isn't wide enough to show "As Attachment" without an ellipsis.
 * Composition | Spelling: 'Language' isn't wide enough for "English/United States".

I noticed that Firefox 2.0's Font setting -- both the simple one on the Content tab and the Advanced box -- have the same issue as TB with the Size dropdowns.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

One more: Composition | HTML Options:  Size is too narrow for "medium" and 
"xx-large".

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

Mike, what's the difference between the two screen shots? they both use large fonts, but the one is at a different resolution which makes it fit?

I'm running large fonts at 1024x768 and everything fits FWIW.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Mike, what's the difference between the two screen shots? they both use large
> fonts, but the one is at a different resolution which makes it fit?
> 
> I'm running large fonts at 1024x768 and everything fits FWIW.

I don't know the difference.  I'm running on Windows 2000.  My fonts under TB are Palatino Linotype for serif, Trebuchet MS for sans-serif -- could that be a cause?

Bug 234774 is about a very similar problem, and Doug Wright reports seeing it with normal fonts on his XP setup.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Fixed by the patch to bug 359632.

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Scott says that patch didn't change anything.  Re-resolving to WFM; I'll reopen if this problem re-emerges.