276756 - tree columnpicker doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Christian Eyrich]

The columnpicker of trees (own trees but also the ones in mails folder/thread
pane and bookmark manager) doesn't work as it should. When using it to remove a
column, it does. But after clicking on a list entry to add (back) a column, the
column doesn't appear and the mouse cursor stays in a drag and drop mode.
Pressing Esc then cancels that.
Using the keyboard to navigate in the list and select an entry works!

The interesting thing is, I can only reproduce that on Linux. On Windows
everything works fine.

I narrowed the introduction of that bug down to the time between release of
Mozilla 1.8a3 and 1.8a4. All Mozilla and TB builds since then show this problem.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I believe this may be a duplicate of bug 276756. I have seen this effect
occasionally with the column picker, but normally I just get the problems in bug
276756.

Comment 2

[Karsten Düsterloh]

> I believe this may be a duplicate of bug 276756. I have seen this effect
> occasionally with the column picker, but normally I just get the problems in bug
> 276756.

Well, *this* is bug 276756 - and it's not about recursion... ;-)

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

sorry I meant bug 261959

Comment 4

[Christian Eyrich]

(In reply to comment #3)
> sorry I meant bug 261959

Yeah, that looks at least very narrow (I always included "tree" in my searches
and so didn't find that bug :-().
What makes me a little unsure is that in bug 261959 people write about
regression happened in July but I don't see it in 1.8a3 and a nightly from
20040819. Additionally I only see it when adding, not when removing a column.
But if anyone think it's a dupe, just close this bug.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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