59524 - Long profile name leads to no Sidebar content, other issues

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect, P3)

Description

[cpratt]

Build ID: 20001108 (NS6 branch)
Platform: Mac OS 9

To reproduce:
- Launch the profile manager
- Create a profile with a long name (I'm guessing more than 32 chars)
- After activation, the My Sidebar area is blank
- Tabs | Customize Sidebar gives a window with no available tabs (it's all 
blank)
- If you quit and relaunch Netscape 6, the profile you just created will have 
disappeared

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

shrir, could this be a result of bug 58099?

Comment 2

[shrirang khanzode]

58099 is (was) about blank 'what's related' and that is fixed.  

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

reassinging to racham.

Comment 4

[racham]

It will be nice if we have a feature in nsIFile that tells us the platform
specific limitations so that we can enforce the check from the frontend...

Comment 5

[racham]

Doing a mass reassign to Conrad Carlen.

Conrad is going address all current and upcoming profile manager issues. Please
do not hesitate to involve me in any of the issues.

Comment 6

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Yikes, it sure does. The front end needs code so the user knows the name is too
long and the backend should ensure this as well. 

Comment 7

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: Fix for front-end

Comment 8

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

The above patch makes the front-end limit the profile name length. Since we
don't have a good XP way to find this limit, I just used navigator.platform.

Comment 9

[Judson Valeski]

we should capture other OS's too (at least linux and windows).

Comment 10

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

-> mozilla 0.9

Comment 11

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

-> 0.9.1

Comment 12

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

-> future. It's an edge case.

Comment 13

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
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Comment 14

[Frankie]

Mac Classic RIP