378898 - Options dialog information cropped

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 283697

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Jim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

Tabs with more information tend to get cropped at the bottom of the display (e.g., "general", "display|formatting", "composition|general", etc.).  This prevents reading the information and accessing any associated controls.  This was a problem under 1.x release as well. I am running under WinXP "normal size" (96 dpi) screen resolution.  In apps I've written I've had problems before when I was selecting larger fonts.

Several fixes pop to mind: 1) Revise layout code, 2) Add vertical scroll bar, 3) allow user to resize dialog (ugliest).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open options dialog and navigate around.
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This is so obvious that there must be something about my display settings that makes it common on my system but not on those of others.

Comment 1

[Jim]

Attachment: Small screen cap showing cropped dialog