700039 - Account Manager Window Exceeds Display Size and Becomes Unusable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 507640

(MailNews Core :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[David E. Ross]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110922 Thunderbird/7.0

Closed bug #591649 is still a problem.  When I reopened that bug report, however, I was told to submit a new bug report.  

I went to the Thunderbird menu bar and selected [Tools > Account Settings].  The resulting Account Settings window was too high, with the title bar unreachable above the top of my monitor.  Thus, I could not drag the window down.  

I again went to the Thunderbird menu bar and selected [Tools > Account Settings].  This time, the bottom of the resulting Account Settings window was too low, with the OK and Cancel buttons below the bottom of my monitor.  Since the title bar was now visible, I used it to resize the Account Settings window by dragging the top downward and then dragging the whole window upward.  Now the OK and Cancel buttons hide the Manage Identities button.  The OK and Cancel buttons should be on the same line as the Manage Identities button.

Comment 1

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Taking this for later.

Comment 2

[Miles]

This has been a difficulty for several versions, now on 14. It makes it impossible to view and make changes to an extension because the two buttons are hidden behind the Windows task bar. Hopefully someone will fix this very soon!

Comment 3

[Miles]

Noticed that this bug is filed with WindowsXP.  I have Win7Pro,64 bit.

Comment 4

[:aceman]

What is your screen resolution?
Also, isn't the settings pane scrollable so that you can get to the Manage identities button?

Squib, are you really working on this?

I think there are several reports for this already.

Comment 5

[David E. Ross]

800x600 screen, 32-bit true colors
17-inch monitor

I just now tried viewing the Account Settings window twice.  

The first time, the top of the window was visible; but the bottom was off the bottom of my monitor screen.  I was able to resize the window so that it was not so tall.  Indeed there was a vertical scroll bar that allowed me to see the Manage Identities button.  (I did not see that scroll bar when I submitted this bug report.)  

The second time, however, the top of the window was off the top of my monitor screen.  I could not resize the window because I could not reach the the title bar.  

Note:  I use a screen resolution of 800x600 because my eyes are getting old.  Thus, this might be considered an accessibility issue.

Comment 6

[David E. Ross]

Attachment: Screen shot of too-tall Account Manager window

I have attached a screen shot of the second case cited in my comment #5.  This is a full-screen image (not cropped).  Notice that there is no title bar on the Account Manager window; it is off the top of the screen.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

squib, interested in bug 507640?