71847 - mail threadpane contents columns not respecting header width

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 71852

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Tested in today's 3/13 mozilla builds on linux, win32 and mac. Tested with
modern and classic themes.

Summary: The message columns in the threadpane are sized according to the
longest item and not according to the width set in the column header.  There is
a horizontal scrollbar in the threadpane to accomodate this width problem. 
Setting the headers width has no effect on the columns.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open mail
2. log into mail account
3. view messages in threadpane
4. attempt to resize column headers

Results:
columns do not respect the header widths.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

*** Bug 71854 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsdogfood since I can only see the Subject and resizing the columns does
not fix the problem. I can scroll horizontally but the column data is so far
apart from the Subject, it's difficult to determine what data (read, priority,
flag) belongs to what Subject.

Comment 3

[Håkan Waara]

Yes I see this too! The scrollbar width increases and decreases as I scroll
through my messages... This should *absolutely* get fixed for 0.8.1 and nsbeta1
imho.

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

this is a dup of more general bug 71852 - proposed fix is there.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

I'm pretty sure this is a dup to.  Marking as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71852 ***

Comment 6

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.

Comment 7

[laurel]

*** Bug 72206 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***