377862 - highlighting of lines in message summary window not set / unset properly

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Alan Cox]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

In the message summary pane (? - the one that lists the subjects/senders/dates
for messages in a folder), the lines with grey background do not get (un)highlighted correctly when (de)selected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird (safe mode or not)
2. Select a message in the summary pane
3. Select the one before it
4. Select the one before that
5. Repeat ...
Actual Results:  
In this particular case the first line is not highlighted when selected;
On selecting the entry above, both lines are highlighted;
On selecting successive entries above, one ends up with every other entry highlighted - the ones with grey backgrounds.


Expected Results:  
The currently selected entry should be highlighted and no others.

Comment 1

[Alan Cox]

Attachment: Image showing the problem

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

The gray background for every second row is usually very pale, don't know why yours seem to be so colorful.

Comment 3

[Alan Cox]

Comment #31 on bug 352694 contains a work-around that also seems to fix this problem - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352694#c31

Comment 4

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Alan we could close this issue as WFM?

Comment 5

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond with your reasons why.