49453 - strange behaviour column headers in thread window at resizing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 79961

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[Vincent Schut]

Build 2000081608 WinNT.
Some headers in the thread pane (like the read 'dot' or the flag) are not
resizeable at their right size. This could be logical thinking, but it works out
quite unlogical. Try for example this nice one:
grab the right boundary of the date header. drag it to the left, so that the
date disappears. Now don't stop, drag further. And -surprise!- the date appears
again, while some other fields are also being resized.
Or this one: I had the status field as the last field on the right. Left to it
was the flag field. Now make the status field as small as possible, either by
dragging its right side to the left (which doesnt scroll to the left then, but
draws the adjecent flag field into the status field) or by dragging the flags
left just over the status field. Then figure out how to get it back to bigger
size... It can be done, but not in any normal, logical, intuitive way... Clue:
grab the status' right and drag this as far as possible to the left.
Just play around a bit resizing, you will notice more of this fun stuff.

Now seriouw, maybe the fields as 'read' (green dot) and flag should just not be
resizeable. Then of the other fields, either side can be made resizeable, if a
non-resizeable field is adjacent it should just move along.

I think the weird behaviour of the mail/news window panes are already in another
bug (the entire window also resizes, when resizing a header field).
This bug I think is related to bug 48036 ?

Comment 1

[lchiang]

We have some other resizing bugs out there.  this may be a duplicate

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

[e-mail] - this works for me on 20001020 Win95 - are you still 
seeing this problem on recent builds of Mozilla?

Gerv

Comment 3

[Vincent Schut]

Well, it's a lot better than some time ago, but still sometimes behaviour is a
little strange. For example when I have these 'items' on: thread, subject,
sender, read, date, status, size, and status and size are minimized, and I try
to resize the right border of the 'date' by dragging it to the left, the left
border of 'date' moves to the right very quickly, while the right border only
moves a little bit.
I just tried, it also works without status and size on. It only happens on
dragging the right border of 'date', even when 'date' is on the far right side
of the pane and should not be draggable to the left.
After a short playing around, i didn't find it on the other items, only 'date'
features this.

Vincent.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

don't see any bugs on thse issues.  Setting status to new.

Comment 5

[Pádraig Brady]

The first paragraph of the origonal report refers
to: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79961

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

reassigning to ssu.

Comment 7

[Sean Su]

I'm still seeing this in today's build under Win2k.  And it looks very much like
a dupe of bug 79961.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79961 ***

Comment 8

[Olga]

Verified dup.