291947 - Newsgroup offline download results in inability to 'drag' due to icon state change flicker

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Andy Brook]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

If I download multiple messages, but then actually try to use Tbird to read
messages, and want to resize message windows etc, every message that gets
downloaded seems to reset the cursor to a 'busy' state', until I move the mouse
over a 'drag' zone, which causes the cursor to flick to drag mode, ... until the
next message fetch starts....

The App can still be used but this is really annoying !

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download offline newsgroup messages
2. try and resize mail preview window during download
3. overseve busy icon
4. move cursor over drag zone, observe 'drag' icon
5. wait.  Observer switched 'busy icon'

Actual Results:  
The cursor was flashing intermittently between drag and busy.

Expected Results:  
cursor state should remain related to current activity not background tasks,
that is managed nicely by the status bar.

version was 1.02

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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