1151764 - Address Autocomplete popup not visible - clipped to 4px height every other key pressed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Tomasz Ostrowski]

Attachment: Sample addressbook with this bug

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150327124418

Steps to reproduce:

With attached addressbook I'm slowly typing "tometzky@" in "To" field in message compose window, making a second long pause after each character.


Actual results:

Every other character typed autocomplete popup isn't visible. When I type "t" and wait - after half a second a popup with 3 addresses will show. Then I type "o" and wait - it almost disappears - only top 4 pixels of this popup is shown. Then I type "m" and it again shows 3 addresses. And so on - every other letter popup is clipped to 4 pixels.


Expected results:

Full popup with all matching addresses should be visible after every letter typed.

Comment 1

[Tomasz Ostrowski]

Attachment: thunderbird-38-autocomplete-popup-clipped-4px.png

Screenshot of autocomplete popup clipped to 4 pixels on Fedora 20 with Thunderbird 38b1 64 bit.

Comment 2

[Tomasz Ostrowski]

I've bisected this bug to the following patch for bug #1042561:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8581469


> $ hg bisect --bad
> The first bad revision is:
> changeset:   235319:d4a39def5811
> user:        Jorg K <[e-mail]>
> date:        Sun Mar 22 13:25:42 2015 +0100
> summary:     Bug 1042561 - Autocomplete: Typed text in red despite results/matches found if suggestions change by last input r=mak

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

I tried on TB 38 (beta) and a local build of TB 40 (Daily) with the enclosed address book on Windows 7.
With every keystroke, irrespective of how long I wait, I get the correct feedback.
So I can't reproduce the problem.

Comment 4

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

@Aceman: You are on Linux, can you reproduce this?

Comment 5

[Tomasz Ostrowski]

It looks like this is dependent on my Window Manager settings on Linux. So it is rather my Window Manager bug, not Thunderbird's. Closing - sorry.

To reproduce if anybody would be interested:
- download Fedora Linux 21 XFCE spin from: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/xfce/ and install it to USB flash-drive;
- boot a computer from this flash-drive;
- open Applications - Settings -> Appearance;
- Change Style to "XFCE-dawn";
- Download and run Thunderbird-nightly.

Comment 6

[:aceman]

I can see the problem too. On Slackware, on KDE 3. On TB trunk (40). With my test AB, not the one attached here. Every second keypress produces the 4px menupopup.

Similar problem happens on TB31.x. There, starting from the second keypress the menupop is about 20px high forever.

Comment 7

[b3nmore]

(In reply to Tomasz Ostrowski from comment #5)
> It looks like this is dependent on my Window Manager settings on Linux. So
> it is rather my Window Manager bug, not Thunderbird's.

Could elaborate which window manger settings causing this? I'm getting this issue on xfwm with every second key press, as :aceman reported.

Comment 8

[b3nmore]

I ran some quick tests for tb 38.4 on various window manger. xfwm4, awesome, i3-wm and kde3 (according to :aceman) have this issue. The only wm, which expanded the list correctly after every key stroke, was gala from elementary os (it's mutter based, so I guess all mutter based wms are ok).

Additionally I've tested tb 24.4 on xfwm4: the autocompletion list gets always expanded correctly.

Comment 9

[b3nmore]

This seems to be fixed in thunderbird 45.0.

Comment 10

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Aceman, can you please test again. If it's fixed, please close the bug.

Comment 11

[:aceman]

Yes, I still see it on the released TB45. First result list are 6 entries high. Subsequent keypresses produce 1 OR 1.5 OR 6 entries high popup (or less if there are less than 6 results). Not sure what the pattern is, but the height fluctuates.

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Given comment 7 I am surprised this doesn't get more comments.  OTOH, b3nmore then 5 months later states unable to reproduce in version 45.

Do you still see this in version 52, or nightly?

Comment 13

[:aceman]

No, I do not see this now on 52 nor 59.
But I'm on KDE4 since then.

Comment 14

[Tomasz Ostrowski]

I can't reproduce this on Thunderbird 52.4.0 / XFCE 4.12 / Fedora 27 either. I think this should be closed as obsolete.

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for the update