533875 - (tb-netbooks) Improve netbooks experience, including areas related to small screen size [meta] (tb-netbooks)

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrew Laignel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0

The main preferences panel simply doesn't fit on a netbook.  Screen resolution is 1024x600 and you either can't see the top or can't see the bottom, rendering you unable to actually set up the software correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Buy a net book
2. Open Thunderbird
3. Profit?

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

in fact there is a cadre of related bugs in both prefs and account mgr (not a great query but here's some)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;short_desc=size%20fit%20big%20small;bug_severity=major;bug_severity=normal;bug_severity=minor;short_desc_type=anywordssubstr;component=Account%20Manager;component=Preferences;resolution=---;product=MailNews%20Core;product=Thunderbird

Comment 2

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

Is this the account setting or the general preferences?
The account settings window didn't fit on my netbook screen (1024x600 running Win7), but I didn't notice any issues with the general preferences (or Options as it's called in Windows) dialog.

There is a initiative to look into the whole Netbook experience of Thunderbird here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Netbooks

Comment 3

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

Perhaps we can use this as our Netbooks tracking bug.  During this 3.0 -> 3.1 time frame we'll be putting a lot of work into making Thunderbird useful on Netbooks.  This will likely mean a lot of different UI from existing Thunderbird and as such we'll be creating that through extensions.  I can try to update this bug as we develop new extensions.  However all the design specs and relevant information will be reflected on the wiki page linked above.

Comment 4

[Andrew Laignel]

Sorry for being unclear - the problem is in the Account Settings panel.

Comment 5

[Andrew Laignel]

Attachment: A screenshot of the problem.

Sometimes the bottom of the dialogue is hidden and the top is shown.  In this case it is the top that is hidden.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Andrew, et al, 
this bug is meta-ized. modify comment 1 query and fire up blocking bugs as needed.
note also bug 529158

Comment 7

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

Thanks Wayne!

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

fwiw http://kb.mozillazine.org/Netbooks (mainly firefox info)

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

https://gsfn.us/t/nsjq is gone