577550 - Mailing list edit window doesn't scale when stretched

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100628 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.6
Build Identifier: TB 3.1

STR:
 1. Create a mailing list, and open it to edit it
 2. Click the right-hand bottom corner, and stretch the corner to make it bigger

Problem:
 - it should show more entries as you stretch, but instead, it shows gray space.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Joe, do you see this on Mac?

I don't see this in windows - doesn't stretch.

Comment 2

[Joe Sewell]

It's not applicable under Mac OS X. The list edit interface is a modal sheet that is not resizable at all.

However, if Thunderbird uses Motif under Ubuntu, then I have a fairly good idea of what the problem is. If the container widgets aren't XmForms (or subclasses thereof), or if they are but the child widgets do not have XmNrightAttachment & related resources set up, then enlarging the shell will be ignored by the children.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Screenshot of the stretched window

Here's a screenshot of the stretched out window. It also seems that if the window can't be stretched on Mac or Windows, that another bug for that should be filed. Making this window bigger would make checking that a name is on the list easier in my cases.

Comment 4

[Joe Sewell]

Hmmm... Not Motif, then. I'm unfamiliar with current X-based GUIs.

The inability to resize the sheet doesn't bother me, probably because I don't do much with mailing lists.

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

Yeah, doesn't bother me particularly, since Zindus won't sync contacts that are in mailing lists, but a bug nonetheless. 

I'd say the best solution is to make the window scale correctly, but just locking it so it can't be scaled seems like a good stop gap as well.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Walt does this reproduce for you?

Comment 7

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

I get a scroll bar in the window when I have enough addresses added to a list.

The window does show more gray space when expanded.

I don't see a need to expand it with a scrollbar available.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

THanks.