269839 - extra painting when labeling many e-mails

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Daniel Wagner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.7.2 (20040707)

When changing the label of several messages at once, the colors alternate
several times rather than just changing once.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Thunderbird
2. In the message pane, highlight several messages (say, 15) to make the effect
more obvious
3. Press 1 (to change label)
4. Press 2
5. Press 1

Actual Results:  
(Assuming label 1 has color red and label 2 has color orange.)
After step 5, all the mail messages are immediately painted red.  After a short
delay, they revert to orange, then are slowly re-painted in red.  Also,
Thunderbird becomes non-operational until the (red) re-painting is finished.

Expected Results:  
After step 5, all the mail messages should be immediately painted red, then stay
red.  Labelling should happen in the background after that, without preventing
the user from continuing his work.

This is probably also true of Mozilla MailNews, and it is very likely related to
bug 114534.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.