194250 - Message filter Rules - More button does not add another rule to filter

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 180144

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Robin McCain]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Filter Rules window - The more button no longer adds another rule to the list. 
Clicking the fewer button does not have any effect.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Edit message filters
2.Filter Rules
3.More button 
Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
add another line to the existing rules

Comment 1

[Robin McCain]

similar to 193553

Comment 2

[Bill Worley]

Same problem on Windows XP

Comment 3

[Sander]

Reporter: does resizing the window 'fix' the problem? (The rules are actually
there, they're simply not showing and the scroll-bar isn't showing up due to the
message area being too small.)
If this is indeed the case, please mark as a duplicate of bug 180144

Comment 4

[Robin McCain]

Window does not allow for a resize. 
Tabbing from right entry box of rule jumps to the more button, not to another 
rule.

Comment 5

[Sander]

Are you absolutely certain the window doesn't resize? (aka, could you try it
again?) I know the thing doesn't have a resize grippie, but it does resize for
me, and it did for the half dozen other people who've reported similar bugs.
The behaviour you see with tabbing going to the more button happens for me as
well when I resize the window so small that the next rule isn't visible anymore.

If you right-click the titlebar of the window, is there a "size" command in the
contextmenu?

Comment 6

[K. Kurian]

Actually more button and fewer button do seem to have effect. However, when
creating a new filter, only the first rule is ever displayed. For example,
create a new filter. Notice fewer button is greyed out (as it should be). Press
more. Notice fewer button is not greyed out, as if a rule was added. Now press
fewer. Notice fewer button is greyed out, as if a rule was removed.

Comment 7

[Robin McCain]

Ok, so it is actually working, but the only way you can find this out is by 
resizing the window, which can ONLY BE DONE in a NONINTUITIVE way. What 
happened to following the windowing standards? Why did this version (1.3.b)
shrink the default window sizes below that seen previously?

This, then is the root of the bug! You need to be visually consistent and if 
you are going to change things that worked before the change, give people more 
visual cues. At least make the window default to 2 rows of rule space or 
include a twistie at the side to expand the view, or add a resize handle to the 
rim of the window.

Comment 8

[Sander]

Yes, I am fully aware of and agree with all the reasons why it's bad; no need to
reiterate. FYI: What changed was allowing for multiple actions. That entire
window needs clean-up. Marking as dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180144 ***