458640 - folder pane reappears on startup even if dragged out of view before exit

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Mikel Ward]

If I drag the folder pane (left-most pane) divider all the way to the left side to hide it, it re-appears after quitting then starting Thunderbird again.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081001 Shredder/3.0b1pre

Comment 1

[Mikel Ward]

This doesn't happen in Thunderbird 2.0 (version 2.0.0.16 (20080723)).

It's annoying enough that it's stopping me using Shredder.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

confirmed. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081114 Shredder/3.0b1pre

cc: Bryan to offer pro+con :)

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Perhaps jminta knows how to change this. Does folder pane have a min-width on startup?  Because after dragging far left and I restart it's open just 1 inch. But, if I touch the divider even just a little, it slams left.

But perhaps it's a mute point until the folder picker is fixed? bug 473009
I'll assume it's semi-blocker for this use case.  

Use case:
When I've eliminated the folder pane, it's been because I'm using a laptop and  I want to get the full screen width for the thread pane. I really like it. Probably more people would if they knew they could do this or if it were available as one of the view selections - and they would complain about this bug :)

cc: asuth in case it factors into his refactoring

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

473009 is wrong bug. bug 465269 better

Comment 5

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I think this may be currently caused or fixed by bug 466697. Seems like a bug though.  I'm sure I've said that I don't really like how the folder pane currently collapses however I think there are a number of things to try.  Like bug 340982 comment #8

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM with current trunk. Can you still reproduce?

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I did more attempts and I did see it twice out of about 10 tries, so there must be some combo of steps/number of tabs that tweaks it

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Lee, can you reproduce this?

Comment 9

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy Wayne Mery,

i presume the "Lee" above is aimed at me since i don't remember subscribing to this bug. [*grin*] 

on a clean profile in tb17.0.2 i cannot reproduce this. nor can i reproduce this in my default, fairly tweaked profile. that applies with all the selections under view/layout. 

closed via file/exit, alt-f4, and the big red x. repeated a nice round dozen times and the folder pane stays shut at each restart.

the only thing that is even slightly odd is the way the folder pane slams shut when i get the right edge of it close to the right edge of the default account name. my other account names are shorter, so i am unsure if that is the actual trigger. that happens in all profiles. it's quite disconcerting, but not part of this bug.

again, the folder pane stays shut for me over the dozen times i tried open-folder-pane, restart, close-folder-pane, restart.

take care,
lee

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks lee

Comment 11

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy Wayne Mery,

you are quite welcome! glad to help a tad ... [*grin*] 

take care,
lee