#38 Line height/clipping issues in message list - MailMate

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#38 reproduced

Line height/clipping issues in message list

Reported by David Shepherdson | December 24th, 2010 @ 12:06 AM

With certain fonts (not all, but plenty that I've tried), the message list seems to do something funny with the line height or vertical spacing, meaning that the text is displayed too low in the row, and therefore gets cut off at the bottom.

Fonts I've seen this problem with include Futura, Georgia, Gill Sans, Menlo and Apple Chancery. Fonts that don't exhibit this problem include Lucida Grande, Helvetica, Monaco, Palatino and Times.

I've attached two screenshots demonstrating the problem: you can see that the text is not vertically centred within the selected row, and you can see that the bottom parts of letters are being cut off (e.g. 'Yesterday' and 'Today' appear like 'Yesterdav' and 'Todav').

messagelistgeorgia.png 22 KB
messagelistmenlo.png 21.1 KB

Comments and changes to this ticket

benny December 24th, 2010 @ 04:47 PM
- State changed from “new” to “reproduced”
- Assigned user set to “benny”
Thanks. I'll look into it although it may be postponed until after version 1.0 is released. I have several font-related todo items for the messages outline including support for multiples lines/font sizes.
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bradford January 24th, 2011 @ 04:59 AM
Wanted to add that I'm seeing a number of related issues with the user's selected font size for the message list being ignored by the app. Most obvious case is the "From" column in the Sent mailbox. After setting the font to Lucida Grande 11 pt, on returning to the mailbox, the "From" column has been bumped up to a larger size, resulting in the clipping described above, just for the one column. See attached screenshot.

I've observed related behavior in other mailboxes. For example, when displaying the "Size" column in any mailbox, it's initially added at a larger incorrect size (see screenshot). The user can reset the font to correct this, but later the "Size" column will revert to using the larger type size. This happens with other added columns as well, although I've not gone through to create an exhaustive list.
- sent-from-column-wrong-font-size.png 34.2 KB
- column-font-size-issue-for-size.png 41.7 KB
benny January 24th, 2011 @ 07:55 AM
@bradford: Thanks for reporting this problem. It has been fixed now. (Unfortunately it is unrelated to the clipping issues described by the creator of this ticket.)
benny February 20th, 2011 @ 08:03 PM
- State changed from “reproduced” to “fixcommitted”
The clipping issue has (I believe) been fixed (part of the next update).
benny March 5th, 2011 @ 05:20 PM
- State changed from “fixcommitted” to “fixreleased”
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