398564 - Default size of Add-ons Manager is too small for the new Plugins panel

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Attachment: screenshot - Plugins panel of Add-ons Manager

Ever since the new plugins panel landed, the default size of the Add-ons Manager in a new profile is too small to show the entire panel without scrolling from left to right (and visa-versa). The default size needs to be adjusted to account for this new panel so that no left<->right scrolling is needed by default. Note that only the plugins panel requires left<->right scrolling.

Screenshots of each panel to be attached showing the problem.

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Attachment: screenshot - Themes panel of Add-ons Manager

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Attachment: screenshot - Extensions panel of Add-ons Manager

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This is fine on windows and mac. Reed tells me that he has his font set to a larger size than normal.

Looks like we provide a default size in pixels, switching to em or whatever that other unit everyone raves about currently is would probably be better.

Comment 4

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This happens when an installed plugin (or extension / theme / locale) provides a rather long name so em won't help.

We could add crop to the add-on name when not selected and remove crop or add wrap when it is selected but that would also look pretty bad.

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Can we just not crop the name all the time. If people want to see more of the name they can resize or we can put the name in a tooltip when hovered over?

Comment 6

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Can we just not crop the name all the time. If people want to see more of the
> name they can resize or we can put the name in a tooltip when hovered over?
It appears that crop on the name stopped working at sometime so sure. ;)

This would be why this is happening with the plugins view.

I'm fine with requiring resizing to read the entire name (e.g. how it worked before crop stopped working) or with a tooltip but how would you prevent the overflow without cropping?

Comment 7

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Irrelevant with the new UI