266295 - Thunderbird default skin throbber should match Firefox default skin throbber

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Daniel Drucker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041019 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.8 (20041019)

Niggling design issue: the thunderbird throbber is somewhat ugly - it consists
of the circle of dots, with the dots growing and shrinking. That doesn't render
well - it looks a bit unprofessional.

The Firefox throbber (same thing, but dots remain a fixed size, and change from
grayed to black) is much nicer.

Aesthetic issues aside, the two should match. I think Thunderbird should take
Firefox's.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 217672 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Joshua Nixon]

Attachment: patch for qute skin to fix throbbers

decompress qute.jar, decompress this zip file into the qute directory to patch
the skin. should replace the following:
skin\classic\communicator\communicator.css
skin\classic\global\icons\Loading.gif
skin\classic\messenger\icons\throbber.gif
skin\classic\messenger\icons\throbber.png
skin\classic\messenger\icons\throbber-small.gif
skin\classic\messenger\icons\throbber-small.png

Comment 3

[Joshua Nixon]

proposed patch (attached above) fixes two issues: replaces thunderbird throbber
with icons from firefox qute skin, and forces thunderbird to respect small icons
for throbber. default tb skin did not change throbber size when small icons were
requested for a toolbar. i just used the same css in communicator.css that ff
uses to switch between small and large throbber.

Loading.gif is not actually used in this patch; the offset for the image did not
match throbber.png so there was a jump when switching between busy/not busy. new
communcator.css calls the throbber.gif from messenger\icons instead of global.

the only thing that remains to be fixed is that this patch does not force the
throbber to become small when placed in a text-only toolbar. if the throbber is
moved to the top text-only menu toolbar (default location for throbber in
firefox) it remains large; would be nice for it to auto-become small in this
instance.

Comment 4

[Joshua Nixon]

This seems to be just a skin issue. Marking as dependent on bug 267850 (toolbar
image inconsistency between Firefox and Thunderbird). Fixing 267850 should
resolve this bug as well.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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