817017 - [Azure] The corners of the Search button have small squares instead of smooth round edges when gfx.content.azure.enabled is true.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Attachment: search-button-corners-error.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14.1
Build ID: 20121129191119

Steps to reproduce:

Updated to 2.14 from 2.13.2 and now the Search button corners have squares instead of smooth rounded corners.


Actual results:

The Search button corners are not smooth rounded corners.


Expected results:

The Search button corners should have smooth rounded corners instead of squares.

Comment 1

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Incidentally, the Search button corners appear as they should (smooth and rounded) on Windows XP SP3 x86.

Comment 2

[therube]

To be clear, you have checked this with SeaMonkey 2.14.1?
Because if you have (Windows) ClearType disabled, then SeaMonkey 2.14 & 2.14.1 will display differently.

Can you post a screenshot of the rounded corners.

Comment 3

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

This I observed with 2.14 and 2.14.1 but only on Win 7 (SP1) x64 and I am 99.99% certain ClearType isn't disabled. I will double check on Monday. For a screenshot of the issue, see Comment 1 attachment (search-button-corners-error.jpg). It's circled, you can't miss it.

Comment 4

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to Arthur K. from comment #3)
> This I observed with 2.14 and 2.14.1 but only on Win 7 (SP1) x64 and I am
> 99.99% certain ClearType isn't disabled. I will double check on Monday. For
> a screenshot of the issue, see Comment 1 attachment
> (search-button-corners-error.jpg). It's circled, you can't miss it.

To be clear: comment #2 requested a contrasting screenshot so that we can compare what you consider to be "good" behaviour and what you consider "bad".

I have another question: Attachment 687120 [details] was made using the Modern theme. Do you see the same problem with the default theme?

Comment 5

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Attachment: Shows the Search button corners in 2.13.2 as rounded as opposed to squares as it appears in 2.14 and newer.

Per request in Comment 2, here is an example of rounded corners as they appear in 2.13.2. In both 2.14 and 2.14.1 corners on the Modern theme have squares (read: not rendered correctly).

Comment 6

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Attachment: It seems any buttons in Modern theme (2.14 and newer) that have corners that have the squares / rendering issue

It seems any buttons with rounded corners have the squares / rounded corners rending issue. Some additional weirdness. I noticed that in 2.14.1, I was not able to switch to Default Theme via View > Apply Theme as it was permanently stuck on Modern Theme but *displaying* Default Theme. When one normally chooses to switch themes, a prompt pops up to "Restart Now" or "Restart Later" but I am not seeing this prompt on 2.14.1. The prompt does appear on 2.14.

The corners of buttons *DO* appear rounded when using Default Theme so the issue is with Modern Theme. If more info is need, let me know.

Comment 7

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Sorry about the extra churn, but you can also see rendering issues of the corners of the tabs in attachment 687777 [details].

Comment 8

[Philip Chee]

I wonder if it's a rogue extension. Can you create a new SeaMonkey profile (Tools->Switch Profile...) and in the new profile don't install any addons or extensions. Switch to the modern theme. Do you still see the problem?

Comment 9

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Doubtful since it works perfectly fine on the same profile with 2.13.x. Just tested with a new profile on 2.14 and also 2.15b2, same behavior as reported with Modern Theme. It's only when SM is upgraded to 2.14 and newer that this happens. The only extensions are DOM Inspector 2.0.13 and JS Debugger 0.9.89. That's it. Plugins all the same. Any code to render rounded corners on buttons changed in 2.14?

Comment 10

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Just tested with 2.14b1, problem is still there.

Comment 11

[Philip Chee]

OK just a wild guess. Go to about:config filter for:
gfx.content.azure.enabled
flip it to false.
(Might need to restart)

Comment 12

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Flipping gfx.content.azure.enabled to false changed behavior and now button corners look as they should, smooth and rounded with no squares. Good wild guess! SO what was the cause?

Comment 13

[Philip Chee]

The Azure backend is very new. The core developers are still shaking the bugs out of the code. Moving to Core->Graphics.

Comment 14

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

I don't know that it would matter but I wanted to mention that I do have the following KB hotfix installed: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2670838. Not sure if the updates within could bork the Azure stuff.

Comment 15

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

I know there's been no activity on this bug in a while but I wanted to mention that I don't observe the behavior on a Dell Optiplex 755 with integrated G35 and SM 2.17.1 but it does show up on an Optiplex 960 with integrated G45 driver (most current available as of 4/15/2013).

Comment 16

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

I haven't checked back in a while but on SM 2.19 I am not seeing this on a Dell Optiplex 7010 (Intel 2500 VGA) so this really is leading me to believe it is driver related (Intel G45). It still appears with SM 2.19 on an Optiplex 960.

Comment 17

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Since I'm not seeing this on various other hardware (NVidia, AMD, and new Intel IPGs) I am guessing it's just a driver but and not a Seamonkey bug. Nothing to see here.