59920 - Bookmark menu appears in wrong place

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 61662

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[Mike Kowalski]

I imported my bookmarks from Netscape 4.76 and there was a folder that had an 
arrow pointing the right meaning that there are more bookmarks, but the menu 
that contains those bookmarks appears at the top of the screen, not right next 
to the arrow. Some bookmark menu is in the wrong place and some bookmarks are 
off screen.

Build ID: 2000111208

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

It will appear at the top of the screen to try and fit more on if the bookmarks 
are very long. (I take it you mean the Bookmarks item in the menu bar.) Could 
you please attach your bookmarks.html file and tell us which item you have a 
problem with?

Gerv

Comment 2

[Azrael AOD]

Mike: Do you still see a problem in this way with the latest builds?
I can't see any problems.. WFM ... 
Mike, if you do still see the problem can you grab a screenshot and submit that?
Thanks

Comment 3

[Mike Kowalski]

Attachment: Menu appears by sidebar

Comment 4

[Azrael AOD]

Mike.. looked at your attachment.. am I missing something.. did it lose 
soemthing in the taking of the image?? Or is it just late and I'm tired?

Comment 5

[Mike Kowalski]

No, it didn't lose anything.

Comment 6

[Azrael AOD]

Ahh.. well when you wrote 'sidebar' I thought you meant all the way to the left 
of the picture...
I think the problem is that there are too manyt bookmarks, so it isn't going to 
line up the top of the next section with the arrow.. but this isn't a bug, it's 
how it is supposed to be (I think) However you said not all the bookmarks 
appeared I take it that some were lost at top and bottom and it wouldn't auto-
scroll the list for you when you hovered over the bottom/top???

Comment 7

[Mike Kowalski]

What appears by the sidebar is the bookmark menu. So nothing in the image is 
missing when I took the image. But that menu shouldn't be there. I think the 
bookmark menu should look like Netscape 4.x. That way more bookmarks are seen. 
The bookmark menu now looks like Internet Explorer. Netscape 4.x had a really 
good bookmark menu because I saw all my bookmarks, but now I have to import all 
of them and most of them don't appear. I think this would fix many bugs.

Comment 8

[Keyser Sose]

I am going to mark this INVALID because its a RFE. Reporter if you feel that
strongly about it file a Request for Enanchement (or however you spell it) bug
and we will pass it along. In the mean time I am closing this.

Comment 9

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 61518 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Mike Kowalski]

One last thing. This menu appears off screen by the sidebar. Look very closely. 
So if you goto Bookmarks at the top, then goto Imported Bookmarks, you'll see 
something by the sidebar. It appears to be the menu, but I can't see anything 
except the side of the menu. I don't think this is an enhancement. This bug 
should be fixed. Whatever made this a RFE, I'll file that portion of it as a 
RFE. I'm reopening the bug because I'm using the latest build(2000121904)and I 
still see it.

Comment 11

[Mike Kowalski]

The bug can only be seen using the modern theme.

Comment 12

[Azrael AOD]

Ok.. yes, I think I realise what the reporter means.. at the far left of the 
picture is the faintest edge of a menu... sorry reporter, we couldn't see this.
Could you please post some more screenshots, of a different skin showing the 
bookmark working correctly.. then perhaps the Mozilla window not at full size, 
to se if the menu shows up more off the side.. and if you label your 
screenshots with a red arrow pointing to the bit you mean we'll better be able 
to comprehend. Thanks for bearing with us.

Comment 13

[Mike Kowalski]

Attachment: window maximized using modern theme

Comment 14

[Mike Kowalski]

Attachment: window not maximized using modern theme

Comment 15

[Mike Kowalski]

Attachment: classic theme

Comment 16

[Mike Kowalski]

Attachment: blue theme

Comment 17

[Azrael AOD]

Thank you Mike Kowalski, that shows the problem perfectly!!
Marking as NEW.

Comment 18

[Azrael AOD]

With 2001010220 Win98 I am seeing this problem.
Bookmarks->Imported IE Favourites->"Blah"

Any of the folders in the "Blah" position all appear as Mike's screenshots show,
i.e. off to the left of the screen (doing it's best to not appear over the
Mozilla window) and almost unusable.

Comment 19

[Mike Kowalski]

I'm using build 2001012108. It's not just the imported bookmarks that appear in 
the wrong place. It's also the links in the folder called Media. And whenever I 
restore the window so it's not maximized, Channels also appear where the 
bookmarks appear, and that's on the left side of the screen. 

Comment 20

[Mike Kowalski]

Attachment: The window is maximized and it shows the media menu on the left side of the screen

Comment 21

[Mike Kowalski]

Attachment: The window is not maximized and it shows the media menu

Comment 22

[Mike Kowalski]

Attachment: The window is not maximized and it shows the channels at the left side of the screen

Comment 23

[Michiel Born]

I've also seen this bug with classic theme, build 2001020820 win95. I've noticed
it only occurs with bookmarks of "real" folders like file-folders (the imported
IE favorites) or ftp-folders (like the folders in the nightly-dir).

Comment 24

[Michiel Born]

Attachment: classic theme w/ this bug

Comment 25

[Fabian Guisset]

this is a dup of bug 61662 and/or bug 62525. Bug 61662 has a patch, could you
please apply the patch to your build and see if it fixes your problem? If yes,
could you please comment in that bug? Thank you alot!

Comment 26

[Mike Kowalski]

Why would this be a dup? Those other bugs were reported after this bug was 
reported. How would I apply the patch to my build?

Comment 27

[Fabian Guisset]

If you don't build Mozilla then you can't test the patch unfortunately. A
general rule for QA's is that the bug that is the most advanced in resolution
(has a patch, is assigned, etc) is the most important one. However this should
not be marked as dup until some menu guru looks at it :-)
Clearing whiteboard.

Comment 28

[Claudius Gayle]

In general, newer bugs get duped on older bugs. These two bugs (this bug and bug 61662)
were filed not too far apart from each other (judging by number). For whatever reason
that got the right eyeballs and became understood and fixed. So like Fabian said b/c that
one is so much more advanced, it takes precedent.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61662 ***

Comment 29

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED Dupe