121677 - shaking/jumping frames w. standard layout

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Brad Garcia]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020121
BuildID:    2002012121

If you choose the first layout (the one with the long frame on the left-hand
side), and then click on one of the news servers in that
left frame, The two frames on the right side start twitching around
like crazy, as if they can't agree on how things should be laid out.

When I choose the second layout, I don't have this problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure to use first layout
2. Click on a news server
3. Watch other two frames go crazy.

Comment 1

[Olga]

I don't see it on my Linux on 3-pane window. I use modern theme.
I switched to Alternate 3-pane window, check newsgroup - looks fine (you also
don't see problem here).
Could you please check with new profile?

Comment 2

[Brad Garcia]

I have a few more details.

First of all, I was clicking on the first newsgroup on the first news server
list, not the server itself.  Clicking on any other newsgroup did not cause
this problem to happen.

Secondly, mozilla was erroneously reporting that there was one unread message
in that newsgroup.  I don't know why.

I got lucky and was able to click on the border between those two panes and
resize it.  After resizing it, it stopped jumping around.  I've restarted
the Mail App several times since then, and I am no longer able to reproduce
the problem.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

With the normal 3 pane, I don't see this, but with the alt-3 pane I sure do.

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

accepting, I think I saw this too.

stephend, are you able to reproduce this at will?

I'm hoping this can be fixed by defining a default height in localstore.rdf

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

Seth, although I can't reproduce the exact same jumping I did earlier (I
should've been more clear; the 1st time I experienced the behavior, I simply
selected a newsgroup while the window was about 3/4 screen size (on a 1024x768
display), and  once I selected a message, the whole alt 3 pane jumped)).  The
current behavior now is that we still 'jump' when going from Account Central for
a newsgroup to the newsgroup itself (not any messages).  Hope this is clearer.

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

I saw shaking and jumping.  the splitter between the thread pane and message
pane was going nuts.  I'll see if I can reproduce it, and if so, fix it.

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

the fix for this is in the fix for #121566.

if we don't define a default height for the thread outliner, you can get into
this weird state.  

I'll make sure to fix the ns and the mozilla tree (both have versions of
localstore.rdf)

I'll spin up a new bug (off #121566, which is much easier to reproduce), so that
the layout guys can investigate if there is a deeper problem here.

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

fixed.

Comment 9

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

see bug #122153 for the infinite loop problem.

Comment 10

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

note to olgam, I fixed this in mozilla and ns.

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 121334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Olga]

Verified on 01-29-0-2002, Linux - 3-pane and Alt 3-pane.