Just to be clear, this is in Thunderbird and, specifically, in the Address Book?

Yes. The notes on the contacts is the field that comes up when you click on the "Other" tab.

You can get to this from the Address book by hitting:

Double click on a contact -> (click) Other

Now you have a screen where you can add 4 custom fields. You also have a space for typing notes. It's that space that doesn't have an adjustable height.

-- L. James

-- L. D. James ljames@apollo3.com www.apollo3.com/~ljames

Zenos said

Just to be clear, this is in Thunderbird and, specifically, in the Address Book?

By the way, I have other feature request. When I learn how to submit this one I'll use the same procedure to submit others.

Also, of course, I'll browse the feature request area in case some of my specific feature request are already submitted by others and being considered.

-- L. James

-- L. D. James ljames@apollo3.com www.apollo3.com/~ljames

Now that I'm clear it's about Thunderbird…

The official route for posting Thunderbird bugs (meaning both errors and enhancements) is bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

You will need to create an account to post there. As a courtesy, one should attempt to see if the same bug has already been filed, as you have proposed to do. This is not a trivial undertaking. :-(

Thanks. I'm familiar with http://buzilla.mozilla.org. Have had an account for years... even filled a bug. When I filled it there was some discussion that bug I filed wasn't a bug, but a design (at the time). I notice that it has been reopened as a bug and might get fixed.

There are other issues and enhancements such as this that I already realize isn't a bug, but an actual design, which I believe can be enhanced with the information I would like to contribute.

So this time I'm trying to start out correctly by filing a feature request... not a bug.

I'm sure it's something simple that I'm missing. But I'm not seeing the option for submitting a feature request on bugzilla site. Filling bugs is very cut an drive. When you click on the link to submit it, it gives you a format of what they expect to see, such as version number, environment, and steps to recreate the bug.

So, I'm sure if you or someone had an actual link to the feature request part, I'd find that just as seamless.

For instance this is a link to file a new bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi#h=dupes%7CThunderbird

If you're saying file a feature request as a bug on this same link and describe it as a feature request, I'll get started on it that way, right away.

Again, I'm sure it's something extremely simple that I'm missing. I'm just trying to get it right.

-- L. James

-- L. D. James ljames@apollo3.com www.apollo3.com/~ljames

I submitted the issue as a bug. I'll rely on the developers to suggest a different path (feature request process) if the bug report doesn't work.

Thanks you very much for the input on this.

This is the bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1298637

-- L. James

-- L. D. James ljames@apollo3.com www.apollo3.com/~ljames

It says quite clearly "Offer us ideas to make Firefox better". So yes, it is the correct place for enhancements, or feature requests, if you will.

There is a group on news.mozilla.org where you could get directly into touch with developers. There are occasionally discussions there about how to go about an improvement so you may gain some traction, but I suspect you'll be advised to raise a bug.

I need to raise one myself to get a useful button returned to having a single predictable label, rather than it just telling you what you did with it on the last occasion when you used it. It's hard enough coping with two menu systems, and variations between platforms, without also having unnecessarily unpredictable and nondeterministic labels on controls. But I can't shake off a feeling of futility in doing so; bugs persist there for years on end.  :-(

I'm very grateful of your assistance. It's not as clear and obvious to me that the wording you quoted means submit your enhancement suggestions as bugs, but I'll take your word for it and use the forum and procedures the way you say they are designed.

I'd be included to suggest to the community to add a feature request procedure . I believe they might make it more easier for the users to submit ideas. To me it really appears wrong submit a bug ticket when the application is performing perfectly according to design.

No matter how many times I would have read that, without your help, I wouldn't have figured it out. So your input has been extremely valuable.

I'll mark this question as solved.

Have a nice day!

By the way, if you see merit in my feature request, consider giving it a vote which might up the priority on consideration.

-- L. James

-- L. D. James ljames@apollo3.com www.apollo3.com/~ljames