894972 - Several toolbar menus in Mail & News and Composer windows are collapsed in recent trunk nightly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 895129

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[rsx11m]

Going into the Mail & News window, the "View" menu should show the current selection. Instead, it is collapsed:

 - Windows 7 Default: vertical mini menu without content
 - Windows Classic: a small square without content
 - Linux KDE 4: horizontal mini menu without content

Tested with SeaMonkey's "classic" theme. In addition, with the Windows 7 Default desktop theme, the menu item on the top block with the radiogroup (All, Unread, etc.) shows no text when highlighted.

Recent regression: not seen in a 20130715 Linux build, seen in today's nightly builds.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Attachment: Screenshot

SeaMonkey classic theme on Windows 7 Default desktop. Hardware acceleration is enabled here, but it doesn't make a difference.

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

To be clear: The menu itself is still functional once clicked on, only the display of the current selection is broken.

Comment 3

[rsx11m]

Not affected: Nightly build 20130716 (linux i686)
Affected: Tinderbox #1373995849, 20130716103049

Thus, a couple of hours before the following changesets:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5f79304fcefe
http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/9cf4459806ca

Comment 4

[rsx11m]

> Tested with SeaMonkey's "classic" theme. In addition, with the Windows 7
> Default desktop theme, the menu item on the top block with the radiogroup
> (All, Unread, etc.) shows no text when highlighted.

I see this with the current SM 2.19 release already, so that's an independent theme issue and may be pending as such already.

Comment 5

[u331436]

Not sure if it is related, but in composing a message, the mail composition toolbar is missing the font selection button. Font color, size, etc.. is present but not anymore the font selections button.

Comment 6

[rsx11m]

Comment #5 was also reported for Thunderbird, so this may be a more wide-spread regression. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2730191#p12975971

Comment 7

[rsx11m]

Ok, confirmed for SeaMonkey's message-composition window and the style selector in the Composer window, so this is a general problem with menulists in toolbars.

Mark, I don't know if it makes sense to open a separate bug for Thunderbird given that it appears to be a cross-application issue, but maybe you have a suggestion for a better component to move this to. I don't see anything matching filed for Toolkit yet, but maybe Firefox doesn't use this kind of construct, thus it won't be as obvious for the Firefox nightly builds.

BTW: Comment #4 is handled in bug 895039.

Comment 8

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

This bug here might be related to Bug 895129, have to check in tomorrow's nightly build.

Comment 9

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Neil confirmed that.

Comment 10

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 777204 [details]
Screenshot

I saw this on my own build, troubleshooted the problem, and forgot to search Bugzilla before filing bug 895129. Other elements may also be affected.

Comment 11

[rsx11m]

No problem, let's make this a duplicate then and reopen if it's not fixed in all instances with the next nightly after your patch has landed on mozilla-central.

Comment 12

[rsx11m]

Oh, mrbkap wrote that patch (and reviewed it himself, interesting), so that was a simple typo from a prior checkin.

Comment 13

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

(In reply to rsx11m from comment #12)
> Oh, mrbkap wrote that patch (and reviewed it himself, interesting), so that
> was a simple typo from a prior checkin.

For the record, the patch had r=sicking in person (see also bug 888787 comment 19).

Comment 14

[rsx11m]

Sure, I figured that there might have been some review shortcut for a typo like this to speed up the procedure, but it looked weird at the moment to see that without any further comment where the r+ came from.

Comment 15

[rsx11m]

Verified fixed on Linux: SM 2.22a1 tinderbox build #1374246229, and TB 25.0a1 tinderbox build #1374246258; all affected menus in the Mail & News 3-pane and composition windows as well as SeaMonkey's Composer window are fully visible and functional again.