130534 - Selected tabs should not have a line between tab and contentframe

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[José Jeria]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020312
BuildID:    20020312

See the page info with Windows XP and classic skin. The selected tab should not
be underlined as it is now. Se how the tabs are displayed in the display
properties of XP for example to see what i mean.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Attachment: Pic showing selected tab with underline

Comment 2

[Adam Hauner]

-> Page Info

Comment 3

[Paul Wyskoczka]

-->qa [e-mail]

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please reassign to the default owner if you change the component...

Comment 5

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

reassign to themes. probably a bug in the native theme support

Comment 6

[Peter Trudelle]

->future

Comment 7

[José Jeria]

Also the Tabs in XP look weird. They dont look 100% selected due to this.

The buttons in the Page info also would need some left and right padding added
to them.

Comment 8

[Arnoud Berendsen]

This is in fact a general problem in Classic skin. It occurs in other places
with tabs too (like address book cards). This does not happen in Modern. I'm
inclined to mark this INVALID as this is probably by design, however maybe
someone with more knowledge of UI design has an opinion on whether we should fix
this or not. CC'ing mpt. Also updating summary to better reflect real issue.

Comment 9

[José Jeria]

Any chance this could be fixed? Affecting tabs, page info etc
Looks really bad. 

Comment 10

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

happens on linux, though Mnyromyr says it doesn't happen on win2k

Comment 11

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Yes, Win2k and OSX are okay. 
But I see this in Linux, too, eg. using the SeaMonkey 1.0b GTK1 release.

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WRT comment 2 - I see the underline with modern theme in SM w2k and XP Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060521 SeaMonkey/1.5a

Comment 13

[Alberto González Palomo]

About comment #12, I would say that MacOS X is not OK. It doesn't look as bad as in WinXP, but the basic problem remains: the selected tab is not connected to the tabpanel, as reported in bug #265698 which seems like a duplicate of this one to me.

Comment 14

[José Jeria]

Duping to newer bug that has a patch

Comment 15

[José Jeria]

Reopening, since dupe was Linux only

Comment 16

[José Jeria]

Attachment: Same issue on Windows 7

Comment 17

[José Jeria]

Requesting block, this make tabs look unpolished.

Comment 18

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

This is a visual bug; we'd take a fix, but we'd release with it.

Comment 19

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Attachment: blow up

Comment 20

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to comment #19)
> Created attachment 534789 [details]
> blow up

Note the gap in the border on the tab is bug 122248.

Comment 21

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl]]

Closing, since no longer applicable.