676547 - Odd styling of dragged bookmarks/emails on Win 7

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: General, defect)

Description

[mploug]

Attachment: manual-move.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.107 Safari/535.1

Steps to reproduce:

I manually move one or more mails from for example the inbox to a local folder.


Actual results:

When I manually move one or more mails from for example the inbox to a local folder the mail header becomes small and blurred. In addition the header text becomes white which also makes it hard to see.
See image on the URL below.


Expected results:

The mail header style and color should not change when you move mails manually.

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

What version of SeaMonkey are you using? The drag image depends on the OS theme I suspect.

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

cc Stefan our OS X expert.

Comment 3

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> cc Stefan our OS X expert.

The reporter is using Windows ;-)

Comment 4

[mploug]

Seamonkey version 2.3 Beta 2.

I use Windows 7.

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

As I said the drag image depends on the OS theme. Once you drop it on the target normal appearance should resume.

Comment 6

[Phoenix]

Is this still reproducible with latest SeaMonkey?

Comment 7

[mploug]

I use Windows 7 with Seamonkey 2.8. When I move a mail manually the mail header still looks like the attached image. 
Once I drop it on the target normal appearance resumes.

I normally use right-click > Move To or Copy To and it works fine for me.
I just don't see why the mail header becomes small, white and blurred when you move mails manually when using Windows 7.

Comment 8

[Phoenix]

Can you try, is Thunderbird behaves in same way?

Comment 9

[mploug]

I have just tried in Thunderbird 11 and it looks almost the same exept that the text color in the mail header is black when I move a mail.

Comment 10

[Phoenix]

Moving to Mailnews Core, hope they can help you with that

Comment 11

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

(this is probably a tookit/theme issue, I think)

mploug, does it look the same when you use the bookmarks manager in SeaMonkey and drag a bookmark into a folder?

Comment 12

[mploug]

Stefan, yes it looks the same when I move a bookmark to a folder in the bookmarks manager in the Seamonkey browser.

Comment 13

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

I tried this on a win7 machine and it looks the same when dragging bookmarks in Firefox bookmarks manager. I think Philip is right, but I wonder why it looks like it does.

Dao, I suspect we can't really do anything about this in the theme?

Comment 14

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

White on blue is the appearance of selected items. Clicking an item in order to drag it will select it, so this is the expected outcome.

Comment 15

[mploug]

In Outlook and eM Client there is just an empty square with a dotted outline beside the cursor arrow when you move manually. Is it possible to make the same appearance in Seamonkey and Thunderbird instead of viewing the mail header?

Comment 16

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

I suppose SeaMonkey and Thunderbird could disable the drag image if they wanted to.

Comment 17

[mploug]

In about:config it seems that you can just set nglayout.enable_drag_images to false and restart Seamonkey. Then then mail header is not visible.
Can you confirm that?

Comment 18

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Presumably SeaMonkey and Thunderbird would want to prevent drag images for these specific trees rather than globally.

Comment 19

[Phoenix]

Is this still present in latest SeaMonkey version?

Comment 20

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard