Should the prefs dialog be resizable? It currently is resizable with issues on Windows and Linux. It is currently not resizable on Mac. 1. Windows: when resizing smaller, many pref options' text will fall to another line, resulting in the pref text being on a different line/alignment off from its respective radio button or checkbox. Example: Formatting panel. 2. Linux: resizable, but dialog display area doesn't change to fit resize. Size it wide and see the background is split: blue for original dialog display area and grey for the resized wider area. 3. Mac: not resizable at all.

I would say, no, it should not be resizeable. CC'd German

accepting.

there is a similar bug somewhere, can't find it at the moment. How about using intrinsic height, so that l18n won't be a proiblem later. Intrinisc height means it sets the opeing height of the window after detrmining what content goes inside. See hyatts postings on intrinsic window sizing on mozilla.xpfe

the problem with the prefs window, is it uses iframes, and intrinsic sizing doesn't work for iframes. I think alecf / ben goodger have some plans to redo prefs at some point with ben's wizard framework. but that's a while off.

that last comment doesn't really help. the plan until then is to make the window big enough so that everything fits and make the dialog not-resizable. there may be some platforms specific xptoolkit bugs that this depends on, and I'll look into it later. not dogfood yet. marking m15.

I'm fiddling with prefs and prefs panels in one of my builds. I've managed to get the iframe sizing horizontally but not vertically. Hope to have my stuff done there by end of weekend.

ben, you rock!

yes, I do. ;) I just got it to resize properly. For measure, I added a splitter to it so you can size the tree pane. unfortunately it acts a leeetle weird, its hard to explain, maybe I should take out the splitter.

One thing that we should probably do is take the left pane out of an IFRAME... you used to have to put trees in IFRAMEs but not anymore... and I think the window will be faster without the extra IFRAME.

yes, I put the tree into an overlay instead of in an iframe. unfortunately this sizes the tree oddly when you expand/close branches.

Everything should be resizable that can be, and this includes the prefs. Non-resizable windows serve no benefit to the user. See bug #4909 and bug #15421.

This really is a dupe of bug #4909.

I've marked this a dup of 4909, I think rgoodger's changes are good enough for now. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4909 ***

Verified as a duplicate.