457076 - Selected tree-row inconsistent: blue or lightgrey

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Edwin Martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; nl; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091620 Firefox/3.0.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; nl; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091620 Firefox/3.0.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I have a table, made with a XUL tree.

Clicking a row makes it selected and blue.

Selecting it programmatically with treeview.selection.select(index) makes it lightgrey.

1) Two colors for a selected row is inconsistent and confusing for the users.
2) The lightgrey is not easy to differentiate and can lead to errors, like deleting something because you didn't see something was "selected".

My suggestion is to use only one color for selection: blue or the OS/theme-dependent alternative.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a XUL tree with rows
2. Select a row with treeview.selection.select(index)
3. It's lightgrey.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Can you give a copy of an XML for easy reference.

Comment 2

[Simon Bünzli]

This is probably a focus issue: When the tree is focused, you get a blue selection, when the tree loses the focus (or never gets it), the selection is grey. That's BTW how the rest of your OS works as well...

If my guess is right, please mark this bug as INVALID.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.