467061 - Thunderbird main windows does not specify a minimum size

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jan Peter Stotz]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.62 (Windows NT 5.1; U; de) Presto/2.1.1
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.18

The main window of Thunderbird does not specify a minimum windows size. Therefore by accidental user actions or TB internal bogus behavior the main windows resizes until only a small part of the title bar is visible.
I experienced recently that users that are no MS-Windows are seriously in trouble in such a situation. 
As the main window of Thunderbird is unusable below a certain resolution there should be a minimum size specified for preventing such situations.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. resize to main window to it's minimum

Actual Results:  
You get window with a client height of about ~3 pixels and a width of about 100 pixels.

Expected Results:  
The main window should not be resizable to such a small dimension. IMHO the point where the information bar at the bottom of the window starts to disappear should mark the minimum size of the window.

Comment 1

[Jan Peter Stotz]

Attachment: Thunderbird main window resized to it's minimum

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Confirmed also on trunk

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2pre) Gecko/20100312 Lightning/1.0b2pre Lanikai/3.1b2pre ID:20100312032514

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

as with bug 354748, I can't reproduce using current trunk version on vista.