Closed Bug 1020547 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

[B2G][Contacts]Low-precision drawing results in unsightly artifacts when scrolling fast

Categories

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Contacts, defect)

ARM
Gonk (Firefox OS)
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(b2g-v1.4 unaffected, b2g-v2.0 affected, b2g-v2.1 verified)

RESOLVED FIXED
2.1 S1 (1aug)
Tracking Status
b2g-v1.4 --- unaffected
b2g-v2.0 --- affected
b2g-v2.1 --- verified

People

(Reporter: jschmitt, Assigned: kats)

References

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Details

(Keywords: regression)

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(5 files)

Attached image Slider.png
Description:
The scrollbar is sliding extremely fast when scrolling through contacts

Repro Steps:
1) Update a Flame to 20140604040204
2) Open Contacts app
3) Import or manually add 100 contacts
4) On the contacts page quickly scroll through the contacts

Actual:
The scrollbar is being improperly displayed.

Expected:
The scrollbar is always visible and scrolls correctly.

Environmental Variables:
Device: Flame
Build ID: 20140604040204
Gaia: 1d4f6f7312882e78b57971152de75d1281a26187
Gecko: 668f29cd71b3
Version: 32.0a1 (2.0) 
Firmware Version: v10G-2

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile;rv:32.0) Gecko/32.0 Firefox/32.0

Notes:
Repro frequency: 100%
See attached: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gDHzTNjbSs 
Screenshot, and logcat
Attached file log.txt
Issue DOES repro on 2.0 Buri.

Issue does NOT repro on 1.4 Flame

Environmental Variables:
Device: Flame
Build ID: 20140604000202
Gaia: 0c16adced7c51f795ef250aebe184f60b6a9b987
Gecko: 04216748e6c1
Version: 30.0 (1.4) 
Firmware Version: v10G-2
Summary: [B2G][Contacts]The scrollbar intemittently appears when scrolling fast through contacts → [B2G][Contacts]The scrollbar intermittently appears when scrolling fast through contacts
Part of the phone isn't showing in the video, so I'm having trouble understanding how fast you are scrolling here to cause the scrollbar to not to appear. I also need to understand what's seen on 1.4 here as well.

Can we get a clearer video here on 2.0 & 1.4?
It was my impression the visual design of the contacts app did not show the scrollbar at all.  I thought we just showed the alpha jump bar instead.

It looks like we're still trying to hide it:

  https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/communications/contacts/style/app.css#L317
  https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/communications/contacts/index.html#L114
(In reply to Jason Smith [:jsmith] from comment #2)
> Part of the phone isn't showing in the video, so I'm having trouble
> understanding how fast you are scrolling here to cause the scrollbar to not
> to appear. I also need to understand what's seen on 1.4 here as well.
> 
> Can we get a clearer video here on 2.0 & 1.4?

Flame 2.0 video = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISM0Mjxuy0U
Flame 1.4 video = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjtrNkRdXx0
Keywords: qawanted
QA Contact: mclemmons
Minor regression overall.
Component: Gaia::Contacts → Panning and Zooming
Product: Firefox OS → Core
Version: unspecified → 32 Branch
From the 2.0 video in comment 4 it looks to me like this isn't the scrollbar at all but an artifact of low-res drawing. It's hard to tell for sure though because the video isn't that clear. If you can disable low-res drawing (set the "layers.low-precision-buffer" pref to false) or go back to a version before bug 897996 landed and see if it goes away that would confirm my theory. (Note that bug 897996 was backed out the first time it landed so make sure you pick a build where it was not in the tree).
Flags: needinfo?(jschmitt)
QA-Wanted to address comment 6
Keywords: qawanted
(In reply to Kartikaya Gupta (email:kats@mozilla.com) from comment #6)
> From the 2.0 video in comment 4 it looks to me like this isn't the scrollbar
> at all but an artifact of low-res drawing. It's hard to tell for sure though
> because the video isn't that clear. If you can disable low-res drawing (set
> the "layers.low-precision-buffer" pref to false) or go back to a version
> before bug 897996 landed and see if it goes away that would confirm my
> theory. (Note that bug 897996 was backed out the first time it landed so
> make sure you pick a build where it was not in the tree).
\\
I tested on 4/27 build before the patch landed 4/28 on comment https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897996#c6

The issue does NOT reproduce.

Environmental Variables:
Device: Flame
Build ID: 20140527040202
Gaia: 6a391274cd436f8f0d1fad2db8c6b4805703259c
Gecko: cbe4f69c2e9c
Version: 32.0a1 (2.0) 
Firmware Version: v121-2
QA Whiteboard: [QAnalyst-Triage?]
Flags: needinfo?(jschmitt)
Keywords: qawanted
Summary: [B2G][Contacts]The scrollbar intermittently appears when scrolling fast through contacts → [B2G][Contacts]Low-precision drawing results in unsightly artifacts when scrolling fast
I'm not entirely sure why this is happening. I forced low-precision drawing always, to be able to see it up close. You can see in the screenshot how on one tile (that ends halfway through Charles Long) there is a black line down the right side. That isn't present on the next tile, although there are a few pixels of black between the Q and the R in the jumpbar. As I scroll around I see similar things all over the place that seem to be inconsistent (and change on redraws). My guess right now is that the low-res tile is one pixel too narrow, possibly due to rounding, and so a one-pixel stripe of random garbage underneath is visible.
Somehow this seems very specific to the layout of the app. The groups-container element in the contacts app has a right padding of 15px (1.5rem technically) and if I change it to 14px or 16px then the fat black line is replaced by a barely-noticeable 1px black line. I think the line (not sure where it's coming from yet) just happens to land in a place where the low-res scaling makes it look really ugly.
QA Whiteboard: [QAnalyst-Triage?] → [QAnalyst-Triage+]
QA Whiteboard: [QAnalyst-Triage+] → [QAnalyst-Triage+][lead-review+]
Assignee: nobody → bugmail.mozilla
Not actively looking at this right now because I have other things at the moment that are more important. Also I suspect there's won't be a lot we can do about this on the platform side.
Assignee: bugmail.mozilla → nobody
I investigated this a bit more and tracked down the root cause. It looks like in the contacts app, the div id="groups-container" has a width of 100% + 1rem so that it's wide enough to put the scrollbar offscreen. However, of that width, 1.5rem is taken up by padding-right, so the groups-container content width is actually less than the screen width. This ends up causing a 5-pixel gap on the right side which is what causes the ugly black line to show up in low-precision drawing mode.

Changing the groups-container width to 100% + 1.5rem fixes the problem.
Assignee: nobody → bugmail.mozilla
Attached file Gaia PR
Attachment #8463441 - Flags: review?(francisco)
Component: Panning and Zooming → Gaia::Contacts
Product: Core → Firefox OS
Version: 32 Branch → unspecified
Comment on attachment 8463441 [details] [review]
Gaia PR

Hi Michal,

would you mind to take the review here?
Attachment #8463441 - Flags: review?(francisco) → review?(mbudzynski)
I cannot see any scrollbar on fresh Flame build, with or without this patch. As far as I understand, it should be visible all the time when scrolling, right?
Flags: needinfo?(bugmail.mozilla)
No, the scrollbar should be hidden all the time; the contacts app CSS does that explicitly. This bug is about a blurred black bar that appears on the right side of the screen when scrolling fast.
Flags: needinfo?(bugmail.mozilla)
Comment on attachment 8463441 [details] [review]
Gaia PR

I couldn't reproduce this bug with this patch applied.

Thanks Kartikaya!
Attachment #8463441 - Flags: review?(mbudzynski) → review+
Master: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/2b804ee5d0bf2bccdc98b2972a74900bb7d7a331
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Keywords: checkin-needed
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → 2.1 S1 (1aug)
Attached video Verify_Video_Flame.MP4
According to comment 16, This issue has been verified successfully on Flame 2.1.
See attachment: Verify_Video_Flame.MP4
Reproducing rate: 0/10

Flame v2.1 version:
Gaia-Rev        38e17b0219cbc50a4ad6f51101898f89e513a552
Gecko-Rev       https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-b2g34_v2_1/rev/8b92c4b8f59a
Build-ID        20141205001201
Version         34.0
Device-Name     flame
FW-Release      4.4.2
FW-Incremental  eng.cltbld.20141205.035305
FW-Date         Fri Dec  5 03:53:16 EST 2014
Bootloader      L1TC00011880
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