163765 - When using themes different from standard, it is not possible to start up mail.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 162891

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jonas Perleryd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020820
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020820


This bug looks similar to 150117, but since it is on a different SW level(1.1
comnpared to released 1.0) and platform (linux compared to Win98)  + I
definitely does not have the problem on Mozilla 1.0 I'll file a new one anyway.

When using a theme different from Modern (have not tries classic) it is very
often not possible to start up the Mailer.  I have tried with
Pinball/Orbit/Orbit Retro with the same result.

What happens is that the mailer is actually started, but the interface does not
come up. I can see that the mailer is started because it actually fetches the
email from my mail server + when closing down all open mozilla windows, I still
have a few mozilla pids running.

I have tried this with the setting 'When Mozilla starts up, open:"  Navigator +
Mail & Newsgroups, and also with only Navigator and trying to start the mailer
manually when the browser is started. It gave the same result.

There is another variation of this bug and that is that sometimes the mailer
comes up but then I cannot click on an email to bring the mail window up. Again,
after this happens and you close down all windows some mozilla pids are running.

I have tried the clean up my  profile and re-install the themes but with poor
result.

I have never seen anything similar with the download manager/addressbook or the
browser so I guess this is caused by some updated APIs which have sent all
Mozilla themes down the drain.  What sort of contradict this is that it
sometimes work and nothing is mentioned about this on mozilla.org or mozdev.org.

The first time I saw this was on one of last weeks nightly.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set the Pinbal themes. And 'When Mozilla starts up, open: =  Navigator +
Mail & Newsgroups
2.  Restart Mozilla. If the the mailer came up try to open up a mail in it's own
window.
3.  If this did not re-produce the fault,  repeat 2 again.  I have never managed
to start it more then, say 10 times without the fault, usually it happens at
least every second time.
4.  Set the modern them and repeat 2, it will work fine.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162891 ***