Size of drop-down dialog boxes for dates/times

[Daud Daud]

Hi
My issue is that in the drop down list boxes (in, for example Add Reminder, Edit Reminder & Reminder Popup boxes) the window is too small to see the contents.  I have attached screen shots to illustrate.
The result is that it is not clear at a glance whether you have set reminder for (e.g.) 1 or 10 days in advance, or snoozed for 1 or 10 hours ...
Bigger / variable-sized dialogue boxes?

I've used ReminderFox for some years now & am currently in version 2.1.5.5.3 on Firefox ESR 45.4.0 on Debian Stretch with GNOME Shell 3.22.1. I find it invaluable & would like to thank you both for your fine offices.
My problem has been the same however whatever version of Iceweasel/Firefox I have used.  It remains largely similar whatever font size I set as default.
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This relates to ReminderFox installed on: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0

[Guenter]

Thanks for reporting.

That issue is well known, sorry, but it's not a problem we can solve within Reminderfox.
Afawk the issue has to do with the theme settings. Please try to change to another theme.

Note: I'm on Ubuntu/Mint without such problems, using the default theme setting.

Guenter

[Colin Law]

On 28 October 2016 at 16:27, Daud Daud <daud...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi
My issue is that in the drop down list boxes (in, for example Add Reminder, Edit Reminder & Reminder Popup boxes) the window is too small to see the contents.  I have attached screen shots to illustrate.
The result is that it is not clear at a glance whether you have set reminder for (e.g.) 1 or 10 days in advance, or snoozed for 1 or 10 hours ...
Bigger / variable-sized dialogue boxes?

I've used ReminderFox for some years now & am currently in version 2.1.5.5.3 on Firefox ESR 45.4.0 on Debian Stretch with GNOME Shell 3.22.1. I find it invaluable & would like to thank you both for your fine offices.
My problem has been the same however whatever version of Iceweasel/Firefox I have used.  It remains largely similar whatever font size I set as default.

See https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24046

There is a workaround in comment #6

Colin

[Daud Daud]

See https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24046" style="color: rgb(42, 118, 198); cursor: text;">https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24046

There is a workaround in comment #6

Colin

Thx for the response. Unfortunately, I get only insecure connection errors from all the mozdev https sites. Would you mind cutting & pasting 'comment #6'?

Thx

Daud2

[Guenter]

------- Comment #6 From Colin Law 2012-01-10 13:14:39 -------

I seem to have found a workaround for this, at least on the
default Ambiance theme on ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 Alpha.  Editing
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc and changing the section
style "comboboxentry"
so that the setting for xthickness is 0 rather than 3 seems to sort it
(after logout and in) and I have not noticed any undesirable side
effects so far.  I suspect this is just a workaround, allowing a bit
more space in the box, and is not addressing the underlying problem.
Perhaps xthickness is not being taken into account by whichever piece
of s/w it is that decides how large the box should be.

------- Comment #7 From Colin Law 2012-01-10 13:35:57 -------

I can confirm that the same fix works for the other problematic standard theme,
Radiance.

------- Comment #8 From Mark Paris 2012-01-27 10:21:38 -------

Confirmed fix/workaround:

Linux T5500 3.0.0-15-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 20 17:23:00 UTC 2012 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu 11.10/Ambience

[Daud Daud]

Thx Guenter
This seems to have done the trick in ReminderFox, at least.  :)   I'll post back if I come upon problems elsewhere.
For the record, Debian has a slightly different structure.  For the default Adwaita theme, the relevant file is:

/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/main.rc

It's a large file so simply perform a search for "combobox"
The defaults were:
  xthickness = 6
  ythickness = 4
Changing xthickness to 0 (zero) gave the desired result. (cf. attached screenshot)

(gtkrc exists in that directory, but does not contain these settings)

Thx again all.

D2

On Friday, 28 October 2016 23:38:40 UTC+1, Guenter wrote:

------- Comment #6 - private From Colin Law 2012-01-10 13:14:39 -------

I seem to have found a workaround for this, at least on the
default Ambiance theme on ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 Alpha.  Editing
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc and changing the section
style "comboboxentry"
so that the setting for xthickness is 0 rather than 3 seems to sort it
(after logout and in) and I have not noticed any undesirable side
effects so far.  I suspect this is just a workaround, allowing a bit
more space in the box, and is not addressing the underlying problem.
Perhaps xthickness is not being taken into account by whichever piece
of s/w it is that decides how large the box should be.

------- Comment #7 - private From Colin Law 2012-01-10 13:35:57 -------

I can confirm that the same fix works for the other problematic standard theme,
Radiance.

------- Comment #8 - private From Mark Paris 2012-01-27 10:21:38 -------

[Daud Daud]

Thx Colin ... I now have this from later posts in this forum.
Regards
D2

On Friday, 28 October 2016 23:21:28 UTC+1, Daud Daud wrote:

On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 22:04 +0100, Colin Law wrote:

On 28 October 2016 at 16:27, Daud Daud wrote:

Hi
My issue is that in the drop down list boxes (in, for example Add Reminder, Edit Reminder & Reminder Popup boxes) the window is too small to see the contents.  I have attached screen shots to illustrate.
The result is that it is not clear at a glance whether you have set reminder for (e.g.) 1 or 10 days in advance, or snoozed for 1 or 10 hours ...
Bigger / variable-sized dialogue boxes?

I've used ReminderFox for some years now & am currently in version 2.1.5.5.3 on Firefox ESR 45.4.0 on Debian Stretch with GNOME Shell 3.22.1. I find it invaluable & would like to thank you both for your fine offices.
My problem has been the same however whatever version of Iceweasel/Firefox I have used.  It remains largely similar whatever font size I set as default.

See https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24046" style="color: rgb(42, 118, 198); cursor: text;">https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24046 - private

There is a workaround in comment #6

Colin

[schmi...@googlemail.com]

This isn't working for me.

And my problem differs. The dropdown-button is 1 pixel wide only, it's a 1 pixel line.

I am using Xubuntu 16.10.
Since 2013 I am using Xubuntu, starting version 13.10, I had to patch themes to get ReminderFox working and this is the only program/addon with this problem.
This is sad! Please fix it.

[Colin Law]

On 13 January 2017 at 09:02, ECF <e...@helioweb.de> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 2. November 2016 17:04:35 UTC+1 schrieb schmi...@googlemail.com:
>> This isn't working for me.
>>
>

> Same for me. (Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS)

Do you mean the work around did not work for you?

Colin

[e...@helioweb.de]

Am Freitag, 13. Januar 2017 10:30:38 UTC+1 schrieb Colin Law:

> On 13 January 2017 at 09:02, ECF wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 2. November 2016 17:04:35 UTC+1 schrieb schmi...@googlemail.com:
> >> This isn't working for me.
> >>
> >
> > Same for me. (Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS)
>
> Do you mean the work around did not work for you?
>
> Colin

Now I found a file, that seems to contain the used config:
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

But the combobox style is already:
xthickness = 0
ythickness = 0

[Colin Law]

Can you copy/paste the relevant section of the gtkrc file please.

Colin

[Rolf Pedersen]

FWIW, I don't have a problem like this with the oxygen theme and the
accordant file, AFAICT, contains these values:

$ grep -A 4 -i combo /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
GtkComboBox::appears-as-list = 1
GtkEntry::honors-transparent-bg-hint = 1

GtkExpander::expander-size = 15

--
# comboboxes
style "oxygen-combobox" = "oxygen-default"
{
# must set combobox frame x thickness to 0, otherwise there
# is a dead area between combobox text and button
xthickness = 0
ythickness = 2
}

style "oxygen-combobox-frame" = "oxygen-default"
{
xthickness = 4
ythickness = 4
}
--
class "GtkComboBox" style "oxygen-combobox"
widget_class "*<GtkComboBox>.<GtkFrame>" style "oxygen-combobox-frame"

# editable combobox margins
style "oxygen-combobox-entry" = "oxygen-default"
{
xthickness = 1
ythickness = 1
}
--
class "GtkComboBoxEntry" style "oxygen-combobox-entry"

# GtkCombo
style "oxygen-combo-button" = "oxygen-combobox-entry"
{
xthickness = 0
ythickness = 2
}
--
widget_class "*<GtkCombo>.<GtkButton>" style "oxygen-combo-button"

# option menu
style "oxygen-option-menu" = "oxygen-default"
{