41690 - menus appear transparent

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[Christos Cheretakis]

in build 2000060508, on linux

Comment 1

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

*** Bug 41689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Could you have unchecked the option "Use viewmanager2" in advanced prefs?

Comment 3

[Christos Cheretakis]

Guess not. Have never seen it and now, after looking for it, stull haven't found
it! What I do for installing new builds is this: rm -rf all but a symlink in the
mozilla directory, and then tar xvzf the new build. I do not clean anything in
the .mozilla directory of the user I use to log in to the machine. Is that of
any help?

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

somehow or another i reproduced this.  it's pretty cool at first, but i'm not 
sure endusers would feel the same way ;)  confirming, i'll try to get some 
clearer [or any] reproduction steps. meanwhile, reassigning to xpmenus, though 
i highly doubt this is pink's problem (it's all style).  if not, please 
reassign.

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

not my problem. it's a view/gecko problem i think

Comment 6

[John Morrison]

What bug? There's nothing describing anything here. Worksforme.

(Notwithstanding someone coming up with a description of the problem and 
how to reproduce, etc.).

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

alright, verified for now because i pulled a new build and it's fine.  but i 
_did_ see this...all the menus became transparent, still functioned properly 
but you could clearly see what was behind them.

i'll reopen w/ more details if i can next time. sorry bout that

Comment 8

[John Morrison]

(Didn't mean to sound snarky :-]). I figured that you would come up with 
the right steps to reproduce (if possible), but that for now, there wasn't 
even a statement of what the problem was, other than a generic 'menus appear
transparent'.

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

*** Bug 42185 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Michael Leary]

Repros on 0609 build.  Screenshot updated with version info at:
http:/63.195.85.227/root.jpg

Has repro'd on all builds in last week for me.

rm -rf package/  before each new build.
.mozilla/  is left alone

Comment 11

[Michael Leary]

corrected typo :-/

http://63.195.85.227/root.jpg

Comment 12

[John Morrison]

So Kin Blas noted in n.p.m.ui (and other newsgroups) that he can reproduce this 
behaviour by de-selecting 'user ViewManager2' in the Debug panel for 
Edit->Preferences (and this is true for current builds on win32/mac/linux) 

1) Michael Leary : do you have this option unchecked when you go the the 
   Debug panel under Preferences?

2) Peter: if it is the case that this is only a bug for the old view manager, 
   would that make it a wontfix, or does this need some work.

(Also, I thought someone said that the old view manager was still used on 
the Mac; while not using ViewManager2 has no affect on Mac menus, this 
definitely affects popups on the mac (context-based popups and tooltips).

Comment 13

[Michael Leary]

Correct, I have this option UNchecked when I go the the Debug panel under
Preferences.

Selecting the option and restarting mozilla eliminates this behavior.

Is unchecked a legacy setting from old build in .mozilla/ ?

Thanks for the fix.  :-)

Comment 14

[John Morrison]

I can't really answer your question about whether this setting is a hangover
from an old build as I don't really know the history of ViewManager(2). 
However, ViewManager2 has been the default implementation for quite some time. 

I'm curious why this 'transparent menu' behaviour only started showing up 
in the past 10 days (but not really that curious :-).

Comment 15

[Peter Trudelle]

resolving as wontfix, old viewmanager is only there to help isolate bugs in 
viewmanager2, using it is not supported.

Comment 16

[John Morrison]

verified wontfix

Comment 17

[Blake Ross]

*** Bug 43194 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***