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Created attachment 128243 [details] Screen shot of 3.2 and 3.5 I20090309-1800 The Help > About dialog is smaller than in past releases, and the initial size is not large enough to display all the available text. This is a minor annoyance because user has to scroll the text box to see all the available text. Also the dialog itself is not resizable so I need to do this every time I open the dialog. See screenshot contrasting with older release.
Note the 3.2 dialog is slightly wider with smaller text, so all of the text fits without needing to scroll. This is on XP with larger fonts but I see the same on Vista with default fonts.
John, did you pick 3.2 specifically or just happen to have it open? ie, do we know that this is a 3.5 regression?
It is a regression. I just checked 3.4 and the initial dialog size was wider, and it was resizable. Not sure why I picked 3.2, I think it was just the first icon I saw on my desktop from an older build.
The fact that the AboutDialog was not resizable was a regression introduced when the dialogs were refactored. Fixed in HEAD >20090422. As for the size, the AboutDialog has always had some hard-coded layout defaults, in particular the minimum width of the text area. That can cause the problem you are seeing, because the minimum width and number of lines text is not really set up for any particular font. I switched to large fonts on XP and I saw the scroll bar even on 3.4.2. The dialog was the same width for me on 3.4.2 and the current 3.5 stream. In my case, though, the button fonts were still small. It could be that when your font setup has a larger button font, you'd see a difference between 3.4.2 and 3.5, because we have decreased the number of buttons along the bottom in 3.5, and if the button bar width increased the width of the dialog before and now does not, a scroll bar could be introduced. I played around with changing the hard-coded vertical and horizontal minimums, but the dialog looked too big with normal size fonts. Also annoying is that in both 3.4.2 and 3.5, the resized about dialog bounds is not remembered, so you do have to resize each time. My focus for now was on fixing any regressions. Given that I can observe the scroll bar problem on 3.4 with large fonts on XP, I'm not going to try to alter the layout unless we determine that very common default settings are influenced poorly by the change in number of buttons. Removing milestone from this bug.
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