385249 - Items overrun the boundary on Lightning options tabs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Preferences, defect, P3)

Description

[Jere]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: 2007061403

In options window all text and fields overrun to the right.  Easily reproduceable running t-bird 1.5 and the .5rc2 lighting.

From within t-bird go to tools pull down, click options.  then click lightning.  Click alarms you can se preview and the down tabs for all alarm settings overrun to the right (i.e. you cant see the whole item)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
um self explanitory is a visual bug not function bug.

Expected Results:  
should be able to see ALL of the useable items.

thats about it

Comment 2

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Lightning can't change the width of the Thunderbird preference window. I can confirm this at least for en-US Thunderbird 1.5 and en-US Lightning 0.5. Other locales might differ.

But I see no problems using en-US Thunderbird 2.0 and en-US Lightning 0.5.

Comment 3

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

I see the views tab of the Lightning options being not high enough with en-US Tb 2.0 and recent Lightning 0.7pre nightly on WinXP with classic theme.

Comment 4

[Pete Riley]

In my case, the right side of Lightning's options are truncated.  This is with the current nightly of Lightning, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, WinXP classic theme, large DPI display fonts, and a system-wide font family of Courier New.

Firefox and Thunderbird both have these problems on my computer and I know that there is at least one Firefox bug in Bugzilla.

Jere, I fixed this by going to my Thunderbird profile folder.  In the Chrome folder, edit a file called UserChrome.css (create the file if it doesn't already exist), and add the following code:

#MailPreferences
{
     width: 800px !important;
     height: 600px !important;
}

Then save the file and restart Thunderbird.  You can tweak the width and the height to your satisfaction.

Comment 5

[Mark Trompell]

So how to fix this properly?
Filing a bug for Thunderbird to request to resize that window or make the preference window rezisable?

Comment 7

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Confirming this bug based on the duplicates.

Comment 10

[ovidiu]

This is still on for TB 2.0.0.14 Lightning 0.8

(In reply to comment #5)
> So how to fix this properly?
the easiest seams to be reorg of options so that they fit in that limited space.

also as workaround css I find enough to put:

#MailPreferences { height: 500px !important; }

or
#MailPreferences { height: 44em !important; }

[de default style shows w 44em/h 38em]

Comment 11

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

Is this Windows only? It looks good on Mac, what about other platforms?

Comment 12

[pavel.zahradnik]

(In reply to comment #11)
> Is this Windows only? It looks good on Mac, what about other platforms?

Maybe it is related with Thunderbird default theme (with silvermel theme there is scrollbar)

Comment 13

[pavel.zahradnik]

Attachment: Thunderbird (default) theme

Comment 14

[pavel.zahradnik]

Attachment: Silvermel theme

Comment 15

[Berend Cornelius]

I cannot reproduce this issue in the latest nightly anymore, wheareas I had no problem to reproduce it in Lightning 0.9 (under Windows). Also I noticed that the preference dialog  is - in Windows only - not resizable anymore.

Comment 16

[Berend Cornelius]

Neither me nor Andreas could reproduce this issue anymore, so I am declaring this as resolved

Comment 17

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Easily reproducible for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081214 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b2pre. Still seeing the behavior I reported in comment#3.

Comment 18

[Andreas Treumann]

Attachment: options dialog - windows classic theme

Comment 19

[Andreas Treumann]

Attachment: options dialog - windows xp default theme, silver

Comment 20

[Andreas Treumann]

Martin, thanks for your 'use windows classic theme' hint. Now it's possible for me to reproduce this issue. The bug is fixed with the default windows XP desktop theme.

Comment 21

[ovidiu]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081212 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b2pre ID:20081212032953

WFM (vista)

Comment 22

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

WFM on linux. Can anyone on windows xp and mac reproduce this issue?

Comment 23

[pavel.zahradnik]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.2

Looks OK on Windows XP

Comment 24

[ovidiu]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.1 ID:20100111101938

WFM vista

Comment 25

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Thanks for testing, looks like this is WFM.