Offliine and Disk Space is now the widest item in the preferences dialog category tree. it affects all platforms, and both skins. jglick et al., is there any way to shorten this?

see bug 80404, a more generic bug for this problem. will attach screenshots.

Dupe of Bug 84692? Or check this bug which is improving offline and disk space ui bug 81753 Maybe we need to merge some of these bugs into 1?

clarification: this doesn't look as bad on win32 --unless the scrollbar is present, in which case only "Offline and Disk Sp..." appears. on linux [either theme], when there's no scrollbar, there needs to be a bit more whitespace btwn the label and the edge of the tree's pane. when the scrollbar is present, "Offline and Disk Sp..." is displayed. on mac [either theme], whether or not there's a scrollbar, "Offline and Disk Sp..." is always displayed.

not quite bug 84692...will add dep for bug 81753.

correction on Mac observation: "Offline and Disk Sp..." displayed when there's no scrollbar [either theme]. "Offline and Disk ..." displayed where the scrollbar is present [either theme]. ^ | whitespace btwn the word and the ellipses.

the easiest fix is to split it into two panels.

In the short term, does using "&" instead of "and" make a difference?

For all items of course (not just Offline & Disk Space).

jglick, cool suggestions. not sure if there are bugs for changing to "Mail & Newsgroups" or "Privacy & Security" already. however, they'd each have different owners anyhow. i'd think Offline & Diskspace would still spill over, at least on mac and on linux [w/scrollbar for latter].

*** Bug 87276 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Request R & SR, Bhuvan and Seth?

No, no, no! I am very doubtful that Ben, Mpt, Blake or anyone else wants to enlare the preferences window even more. There have been endless discussions about the pref windows size, and the solution is not to increase it for each new addition. If you are going to change the pref window. I suggest you choose Ben as sr=/r= as opposed to Seth. He has been working on pref window lately.

Right, this dialog is not being resized. Skillful avoidance of the: "<!-- This dialog has a fixed size and is not resizable. You MAY NOT increase the size of this dialog. Questions, Comments -> ben@netscape.com -->" message right above that tag, though, I must say...

If anything, why don't you make the tree wider? But before we go there, I'd love to hear why Offline and Disk Space are grouped together...

I argued to do that (and, IIRC, have it as a "global" panel in Account Settings where it belongs) in another Offline and Disk Space bug.

Request R & SR again.

Um, Diane, see previous comments -- reasons for why this patch would probably be disapproved by Ben.

diane, wait for ben or german to comment on why the pref window is not going to be resizable. ben is the module owner for that dialog, so you'll need his review.

Request R & SR on either way, attachment 40018 [details] [diff] [review] or 43596, Ben, German?

No. This dialog is not ever going to be made resizable on the trunk. Resizability is never an excuse for content that does not fit. I suggest modifying the Offline and Disk Space UI so that the content fits. Soon I will impose further restrictions on new content being developed for this preferences dialog and file bugs on outstanding issues.

Missed 0.9.3.

I'm ok with changing "Offline And Disk Space" to "Offline & Disk Space". We've already changed to "Offline & Disk Space" in the account manager, so this makes sense. but as always, please wait for jglick to OK the UI change. note, changing " and " to " & " may not be enough. 4.x had just "Offline". The "Offline & Disk Space" panel is close to running out of room. If we plan on adding more items, we might need to re-spec the tree. jglick / diane: do you know if any more items are going to be added to this pref panel? either way, jglick, can you update the spec? the spec doesn't have much on "Offline" in prefs. see: http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/prefs/Preferences.html

Screenshot(id=44652)looks good. Offline spec is here: http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/offline/images/PrefOff1.gif I will update this spec and the prefs spec.

sr=sspitzer on http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=44653 for consistency, I think we should do: "Mail and Newsgroups" -> "Mail & Newsgroups" "Privacy and Security" -> "Privacy & Security" ben/german/jglick/robin, any objections?

I like "Mail & News" personally. :-)

seth/jen: agreed, i'd like to replace 'and' with '&' in this and the other prefs categories --wait, i already said that on 2001-06-21 18:14. ;) anyone find those as separate, existing bugs? [pardon my grogginess --still pulling self from vacation mode.]

sounds like we are all in agreement. 1) we should also convert "Copies and Folders" to "Copies & Folders" in account manager. 2) I also like "Mail & News" better than "Mail & Newsgroups". If we do that, "Tasks | Mail" should be "Tasks | Mail & News". (I think stephend owns that bug, or started a patch for it once.) jglick, any objection to that? we should probably start spinning off bugs for all these changes.

related bugs filed: bug 94018: change all instances of 'Mail and Newsgroups' to 'Mail & News' bug 94020: change Tasks > Mail to Tasks > Mail & News bug 94022: change 'Copies and Folders' to 'Copies & Folders' bug 94026: change 'Privacy and Security' to 'Privacy & Security'

sounds good. :-)

r=eddyk on http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=44653

checked in.

Commercial builds 2001082008 - win nt 4.0 2001082108 - linux 2.2, mac 9.0.4 Verified for both themes that the Offline and Disk Space panel in the Preferences window: - that Offline and Disk Space is changed to Offline & Disk Space - the category column displays correctly - the Offline & Disk Space panel is displayed correctly - proper defaults are set