365041 - Changing tags with keyboard fails to redraw the message highlight with the appropriate color

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[David Schneider]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9
Build Identifier: Version 2 beta 1 (20061206)

Using the keyboard (1, 2, 3, 0, etc) to change tags on a piece of mail sometimes does not update the color of the current mail selection in the top of the 3-pane layout.
i.e., if the mail is tagged with tag #1, the highlight is red--hitting 0 should remove the tag and return the highlight to the theme default, but sometimes it just removes the tag and does not update the highlight.  Un- or reselecting the mail item produces the proper color.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Highlight an already-labeled e-mail message.
2. Hit zero to change the label to blank.

Actual Results:  
If you're lucky (unlucky), the highlight will not update color.
If so, un-select the mail item--the color is now updated properly.

Expected Results:  
The highlight should update color right away.

I wish it were easier to produce, but I suppose it's just that for some reason (and this may only be on mac), it is not signalling a redraw as it should.
The visual feedback is important for efficient use of the program, however, so the problem is a little bit more important than it seems.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Is this bug still an issue with current builds?

Is it for IMAP mail?  See bug 355205.

Comment 2

[David Schneider]

I believe it was fixed in beta 2.  Thanks for bringing it up.

(It was not IMAP)

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

David, FYI: please use WorksForMe instead of Fixed unless you can point to the specific patch that fixed it.  Thanks!

Comment 4

[David Schneider]

My bad.  Thanks again!