Context menu remains open above all other windows during compact
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)
Tracking
(thunderbird_esr128 affected)
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thunderbird_esr128 | --- | affected |
People
(Reporter: psychonaut, Unassigned)
Details
When I right-click on an uncompacted folder with a large number of messages (say, several thousand) and select "Compact", the context menu remains open and Thunderbird freezes while the compact operation executes, which can take over a minute. The context menu stays above all other windows on my desktop, which means that my workspace is obscured if a switch to another window.
I am seeing this problem with Thunderbird 115 on openSUSE Tumbleweed running KDE Plasma 6 on X11.
Reproducibility: Always
Steps to reproduce:
- Right-click on an uncompacted folder with several thousand messages. A context menu appears.
- Click on "Compact".
Observed results:
- The context menu remains open and above all other windows on the desktop while the Compact operation executes.
Expected results:
- The context menu should disappear while the Compact operation executes, or at least it should not be kept above all other windows on the desktop.
Comment 1•5 months ago
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Better with v128?
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Comment 2•4 months ago
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Yes, no longer reproducible with Thunderbird 128.3.0.
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Comment 3•4 months ago
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Sorry, I spoke too soon. I observed the problem today with 128.3.0esr when compacting a large folder (about 5600 messages).
Comment 4•1 month ago
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Christian, can you reproduce?
Comment 5•29 days ago
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A couple of things first:
One doesn't know beforehand whether a folder needs compacting, but only after the fact.
My largest folder has a little less than 2000 messages, not several thousand. It's on an IMAP server.
I seldom start compacting manually, it typically gets triggered automatically. I therefore doubt I do have truly "uncompacted" folders.
Triggering compacting manually for that one particular folder shows no unusual effects. As per status bar information compacting saved about 68 kB, and it probably took no longer than a second or two.
I don't think I've ever seen any of the effects described in #c0.
TB128.6.0, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Gnome 47 on Wayland
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