113052 - Outliner Tree Lines Inconsistent with Mac OS

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 99949

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Sometime between Mozilla 0.9.4 and 0.9.6, lines were added to the folder pane to
show the hierarchy of mail folders.  This is probably a good thing for those
used to Windows Explorer where this is the norm, but this is not the regular
behavior on the Mac OS (at least through 9.2.1).  View any folder in list view
and you will not see any lines -- the indentation is sufficient to show the
hierarchy.

The drawing of these lines is not even consistent with the rest of Mozilla --
the Preferences dialog does not draw these lines, nor does the Bookmarks window.

If the presence of these lines is not a preference already, it should be, and
thought should be given as to how these lines appear in the scheme of each OS as
well as Mozilla as a whole.

Comment 1

[Nick Kocharhook]

That is very Windows-ish... Yuck. A preference would be nice.

Comment 2

[Olga]

I copy jglick for her opinion.
Related bug 99949.

Comment 3

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Apparently this is a product of the new outliner, as the Bookmarks now display
these lines as well.  Updating summary to reflect this -- while it does now show
consistency throughout Mozilla, it still does not "jive" with the Mac OS.

Comment 4

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Now that I have reexamined bug 99949, I realize that this bug has no purpose
separate from that.  Marking as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99949 ***

Comment 5

[Olga]

Verified dup.