529158 - Too much space used for address fields on a netbook

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 425451

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Jendrik Seipp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 3.0b4

In the composing window it would be great if the user could make the total size of the address fields smaller. 

At the moment the user is only allowed to have 4 or more recipients in the list under one another. On netbooks this doesn't leave much space for the actual message. It is crucial to allow resizing the space used for addressing to a smaller size. Many times a message just goes out to one recipient and the other three empty fields just take up space.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a new message.
2. Try to move the horizontal slider upwards to have less recipients fields.
Actual Results:  
Slider does not move higher.

Expected Results:  
Slider should take space from the upper recipients fields and give it to the main text area.

I think fixing this bug is crucial for netbooks and all smaller screens.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #0)

> I think fixing this bug is crucial for netbooks and all smaller screens.

screenshot ?

Comment 2

[Jendrik Seipp]

Attachment: I know that this is TB 2.x but the bug persists in newer versions

Comment 3

[Jendrik Seipp]

Anyone with me on this? I think fixing this bug should be fairly easy compared to the huge usability benefit.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

agree, I've long thought it is too much space even on a normal big screen.
I'd like to see a smaller default address field space, and for those who want more, make the divider location persist.