203289 - message pane cannot be permanently hidden when wide layout is selected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 77447

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Otto PETER]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

If wide layout (the 2nd option in preferences -> mail &newsgroups -> window) is
selected for the message pane, hiding it (view -> show/hide), or closing it with
the separation bar does not persist after restarting the program. For example,
even if, after using the separation bar, nothing of the window is visible (which
seems not always to be the case after restarting), highlighting a message marks
it as read. This has been the case for several releases now, and it is also the
case in the current and some previous versions of Netscape.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.select wide message pane layout in prefs->mail->window (as opposed to high
mail folder pane)
2.de-select message pane in view->show/hide
3.close program
4.restart program, look in view->show/hide ... voila.

Actual Results:  
see details

Expected Results:  
the message pane should have remained hidden

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

See my comment in Bug 63641.  I'm inclined to confirm this, but that one weakly
has precedence.

Comment 2

[djk]

I think that this bug is part of what Neil was talking about in bug 63641
comment 7 and bug 63641 comment 10.

Actually, Neil's probably seeing bug 77447, about the state of the pane not
being remembered when switching to/from Account Central.

bug 63641 is not a dup of this bug, but I think that this bug may block that one.

David

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Neil, would you please comment on whether this dupes or blocks Bug 63641.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 159087 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77447 ***