63236 - cannot scroll down to see expanded category tree

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 59108

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Mike Kowalski]

If I goto preferences, and click on the arrow to show all sub menus, I could 
see every menu except Networking. The only way to see Networking is to click on 
the arrow by Debug and then reopen it. 

Build ID: 2000121804

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Is this a dupe of buf 59108 ?

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

don't think this is bug 59108, since i now do get the scrollbar. what happens is
that, after expanding all the categories, i cannot scroll down to view all of
them --even after dragging the scroll-thumb all the way down.

occurs on winNT and linux 2000.12.18.08 [comm verif] bits. doesn't occur on mac.

workaround: hit the down arrow key to access the other categories.

jrgm/peter, should this go over to toolkit?

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

drat, forgot to confirm...

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

can't repro using today's bits on win98. another workaround is to resize the 
prefs window.  ->future

Comment 5

[robbe]

Can repro on Linux build 2001010616:

If necessary, shrink dialog until scrollbar appears. Then open some branches, so
that the list gets longer => the scrollbar is not updated to the new list,
scrolling all the way down will not work.

Also, if there's no scrollbar at first, opening branches will never make one appear.

Having to resize the pref panel is bad. But there's already bug 30659 for that.
The really evil thing is, that in many cases, there's NO indication that there's
more stuff down there.

Comment 6

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

I personally suspect this bug *is* the same as bug 59108, since it's just
calculating the scrollbar size wrong in both cases.  At least change the name of
this bug to "scrollbar in expanded category tree is not long enough" if you want
to differentiate.

Comment 7

[Mike Jaques]

still seeing this in 2001041804, recommend setting keyword polish, and milestone
1.0.

This and other default pref settings need to be fixed for mozilla 1.0 as they
are fairly visible polish items. Rough edges should start to be going away by
this time as we are getting close to what we are deeming a 1.0 quality release.
 I'll attach a few screen shots of a few of the polish needs in prefs, but it is
in no a way complete list.

Comment 8

[Mike Jaques]

Attachment: bad scrollbar alignment

Comment 9

[Mike Jaques]

Attachment: no scrollbar

Comment 10

[Mike Jaques]

Attachment: privacy pref disfigured, fixed by hiding pref dialog screen and letting it re-draw

Comment 11

[Mike Jaques]

Attachment: privacy pref fixed after dragging pref panel off righthand portion of screen and dragging it back

Comment 12

[Mike Jaques]

Attachment: bad alignment, using default profile as with other issues in above images. fixable by re-sizing, but by default it should look clean.

Comment 13

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

would this perchance be a dup of bug 52298?

Comment 14

[Mike Jaques]

All the other alignment issues seem to be getting taken care of or have been
already (some rearrangment of panels is/was going on), tho i still see
the scrollbar issues as of 2001060820 first decribed in this bug report, this is
a Mozilla1.0 stopper and certainly a visual UI glitch Netscape would want
resolved before 0.9.2 I would think.

Comment 15

[Martyr]

Win 98
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010613
Build: 2001061304

Reproduces as noted above, but note this (maybe a clue to fixing it?)

Using the mouse for all:
1. Edit->Prefrences 
2. Expand every category in reverse order (to get the scrollbar). Note that the
scrollbars do not appear until you hit the first category!
3. Scroll to the end
4. Close Privacy, Advanced and Debug categories. 
4. Expand Advanced category. You can scroll down and see everything fine. 
5. Close Advanced category. 
6. Open Debug category. Now, you CANNOT see what is in the debug category, or
beneath it in the tree. 
7. Close Debug category and open it. Now, you can see what is in this category
and below this category. 

The tree length is not being passed correctly it seems...it may be an
inheritence problem, given #2, and #6-7. 

HTH

Comment 16

[Francisco León]

Dupe of bug 52298?
bug 59108?

Comment 17

[Aaron Leventhal]

Gee, maybe it's just a guess, but I don't think this one's high on hyatt's list.

This one needs a new owner.

Comment 18

[scalkins]

This affects IM buddy lists as well. A confusing high visibility issue there.

Comment 19

[Sebastian Posner]

Also got nu Scrollbar at all.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
Build 2001080104

SuSE Linux 7.2

Comment 20

[Håkan Waara]

*** Bug 112388 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 21

[Blake Ross]

This will be fixed when prefs starts using outliner, which is now possible
thanks to jan's implementation of an outliner content model view.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59108 ***

Comment 22

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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