541854 - Mail window shows annoying toolbar icons even when "text" is selected

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[Richard Mlynarik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7
Build Identifier: 3.0.1 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1

My main 3-pane mail reading window just shows text labels (no irritating-to-me icons or icons+text) thanks to click-right "Customize".  Thanks!

But I just opened a new message window via the "File / Open Saved Message ..." top-level menu item, and the new window opened comes with icons that I CANNOT GET RID OF.

See attached screen shot.  I've invoked the "Customize" menu by clicking right on the mail window toolbar, verified that "Text" (not "Icons and Text", not "Icons", not "Icons beside Text") is selected, reselected "Text", exited, tried again.

But still I get the silly little pictures cluttering my screen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. File / Open Saved Message ... to open a new mail window
2. Click right Customize on the window toolbar
3. Select "Text" (no icons)
4. Click "Done"

Actual Results:  
Icons

Expected Results:  
No icons thank you very much

Comment 1

[Richard Mlynarik]

Attachment: Icons present, even when undesired

Comment 2

[Richard Mlynarik]

Perhaps related to Bug 523358 ?
Just a guess.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

This is WFM for me in Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2pre) Gecko/20100120 Lanikai/3.1a1.

Can you try in -safe-mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode) ?

Comment 4

[Richard Mlynarik]

OK.  I did some investigation using diffs against some backup files.

It seems that the problem is that the localstore.rdf XML data file in my ~/Library/Thunderbird/profiles/stupid-junk.default/ profile directory (inherited from TB 2, inherited from Mozilla, inherited from the depths of time)
does not contain:

<RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://messenger/content/messageWindow.xul">
  <NC:persist RDF:resource="chrome://messenger/content/messageWindow.xul#mail-bar3"/>

nor does it does not contain:

<RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://messenger/content/messageWindow.xul#mail-bar3" mode="text" />

Note that it does DOES however contain:

  <RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xul#mail-bar3" mode="text" currentset="button-getmsg,button-newmsg,button-address,spacer,button-tag,button-reply,button-replyall,button-forward,button-mark,spring,folder-location-container,gloda-search,throbber-box" />



When I manually add those two second-level and third-level XML things to the localstore.rdf file then TB appears to work as expected: the menu bar is displayed as text with no icons and the menu bar customization dialog correctly shows that I have selected text, no icons.


So I guess there is some bug that the latest and greatest TB3.0 UI code doesn't compensate for missing or renamed attributes from migrated old profiles.

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Sounds like it's time to close this. Please feel free to reopen if you can still reproduce.