7012 - Unread messages aren't bold until you mouse over them

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[scottputterman]

Because of my fix to 7002, Unread Messages no longer show up as bold in the
thread pane until you mouse over them.

Comment 1

[lchiang]

<Will ask verah to release note this in M6: "Due to optimizing performance in
displaying headers (bug 7002), unread messages no longer show up as bold in the
thread pane until you move your mouse over them.  This does not affect the
message's state if you select an unread message to read it.  This is a temporary
problem and will be addressed in the next release.">

Comment 2

[Chris Waterson]

This looks like a dup of one of the style system bugs. Can't remember the
number.

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

On Chris's suggestion, I'm reassigning to hyatt.

Comment 4

[David Hyatt]

I suspect this is our problem.  It may have something
to do with the tree widget's wacky frame construction (where the content
model is nested but the frames are flattened).

Note that when you hover over the message I change an attribute (since hover
doesn't "bubble", I'm still having to use attribute selector rules to achieve
hover effects on both rows and cells) and this could be causing a re-resolve
that makes the bold text show up.

The question is why didn't it show up to start with?  I'm not sure.  We
keep seeing this problem where we change an attribute on the tree widget,
but the change doesn't seem to be picked up until some later date (e.g.,
when some obvious action happens to force a repaint).

cc'ing Peter Linss, since he might have some insight into what we could be
doing wrong (I believe it's probably our code that is in error here and not
the style code).

Comment 5

[leger]

Putting on [Perf] radar

Comment 6

[David Hyatt]

Fixed.

Comment 7

[lchiang]

Fenella, pls verify.

Comment 8

[fenella]

Verify that the problem has been fixed on the following builds
Linux, Win_nt 4.0 and Mac (1999-06-24-12 m8)

Comment 9

[lchiang]

Did you verify for POP, IMAP, and News?

Comment 10

[fenella]

This fell through the crack. See bug 17229