953632 - Problems when the conversation window has very small width

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Conversation, defect)

Description

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 185 at 2009-05-03 22:02:00 UTC ***

*** Due to BzAPI limitations, the initial description is in comment 1 ***

Comment 1

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

Attachment: Screenshot of drawing error

*** Original post on bio 185 as attmnt 137 at 2009-05-03 22:02:00 UTC ***

There's a drawing error on the conversation window, when resizing the nicklist at an IRC chat.

For details see attached image.

Comment 2

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 185 at 2009-05-03 22:15:30 UTC ***

CORRECTION:

The error doesn't depend on the nicklist but on the size of the whole window.

Resizing it to a small width makes the scrollbar on the chat part (normal chat, no nicklist) and the sizing handle on the statusbar go out of the window on the right hand side.

Comment 3

[Romain BEZUT]

Attachment: Error on WinXP SP3

*** Original post on bio 185 as attmnt 160 at 2009-08-02 23:10:00 UTC ***

Adding a new screenshot under winXP SP3 and last nightly at the date of this comment.

Need to check whether or not it happens on other platforms.

Comment 4

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 185 at 2009-08-13 11:03:10 UTC ***

Same happens when resizing the windows vertically and the browser (conversation area) gets so small that it isn't resized any further).
The textbox will go behind the browser element and borders and such are lost/messed up.

Comment 5

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 185 at 2011-05-31 12:47:19 UTC ***

If someone cares, there are 2 possible ways to resolve this:
* either hide the nicklist automatically when the window isn't wide enough, using CSS media queries
* or wait for Mozilla's bug about supporting size constraints on windows (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357725) to be fixed, and add a min-width on conversation windows that is > the min width of the conversation browser + the default width of the nicklist (and resize the nicklist down to that size automatically when the window is down sized; we have similar code for the textbox already).

Comment 6

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 185 at 2012-07-31 13:25:24 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #4)
> If someone cares, there are 2 possible ways to resolve this:
> * either hide the nicklist automatically when the window isn't wide enough,
> using CSS media queries
> * or wait for Mozilla's bug about supporting size constraints on windows
> (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357725) to be fixed, and add a
> min-width on conversation windows that is > the min width of the conversation
> browser + the default width of the nicklist (and resize the nicklist down to
> that size automatically when the window is down sized; we have similar code for
> the textbox already).

Bio 357725 is fixed now, with target Mozilla 17 (our update to Mozilla 17 is tracked in bug 955036 (bio 1606)).

Comment 7

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.