44578 - Search UI: default results pane is too small

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[laurel]

Using july 5 commercial build

The default size of the search results pane is only two lines, should be bigger.

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

anyone have any suggestions on how big?

Comment 2

[laurel]

Big enough at least to make the scrollbar worthwhile.  Currently even if you
only have a few messages, there's a scrollbar which is so small there is no
slider.  

4.x size is pretty good -- about 10 lines?

Comment 3

[laurel]

You know, since the Mac dialog doesn't resize, this makes it frustrating to look
through results on Mac.  If beta2 McPeople use search, we'll get some
complaints.

Comment 4

[lchiang]

nominate nsbeta3.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

Mail triage is marking nsbeta3-

Comment 6

[laurel]

I think this should be reconsidered, since this makes Mac sesarch results pane a
two line area which cannot be resized.  Rethink, please, unless we're going to
make all dialogs resizable on Mac...

Comment 7

[Alec Flett]

is there a bug about mac dialogs not resizing? we really need that to be fixed 
for beta3

Comment 8

[laurel]

I found one, but it's been futured... bug 41741.

Comment 9

[scottputterman]

The bug actually says it has a patch in it for a fix.

Comment 10

[Alec Flett]

reassign all search/filter UI bugs to gayatrib, part 2

Comment 11

[laurel]

Adding nsCatFood keyword:  this is a pain to have to always resize the results 
pane before using -- we still only default to a couple lines and so with most 
searches, one must resize to use.  Especially since we added sort and other 
operations to the search results pane, it should be that we also make it of an 
initially useful size.

Comment 12

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.2 and reassigning to varada.

Comment 13

[scottputterman]

reassigning

Comment 14

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.3

Comment 15

[laurel]

Somewhere along the line this got better -- now opens with about 5 lines. This 
is probably good enough, we have so many other things to do now. 

Comment 16

[laurel]

verified worksforme.

Comment 17

[laurel]

Seth wants to look at the results pane size issue again for next release. Reopening.

Comment 18

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking.  I'd like to see us have the same number of rows as in 4.x

Comment 19

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

in addition to it being bigger, we need to persist the size.

working on a simple fix now.

Comment 20

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this would be nice to clean up.  moving out.

Comment 21

[scottputterman]

moving to 1.0.1

Comment 22

[andreww]

Is this the Advanced search dialog?  I have  redone this dialog for 91753 - 
so Ill take this and mark fixed if it  appears to be so.

Comment 23

[andreww]

Ok marking WFM now that the other changes have gone in. You can now 
see many lines.  The issue with persisting size will be carved  off to 
another bug.

Comment 24

[laurel]

verified worksforme with current commercial builds.