Mail news has two ways to display the preview pane (see below). If you open mail/news with the second form and right click on a news server, the display attempts to hide the preview panel, simultaneously with stretching the folder panel and displaying the context menu. This all ends up in a big visual mess with the folder pane not being painted in the right position and the context menu not appearing next to the account. Steps to reproduce: 1. Run Mozilla and open preferences. On "Mail and Newsgroups" select the second window layout form (see below). 2. Restart Mozilla. 3. Open Mail/News 4. Click on a newsgroup or mail folder to ensure the preview pane is visible. 5. Right click on a mail/news account. The two forms are listed below. You need to set the second one to see this problem. ------------- | | O | | | | | F |-------| | | PP | |___|_______| This way has the folder panel on the left with the outline view above the preview panel. ------------- | F | | |___|_______| | PP | |___________| This way has the folder panel and the outline view above the preview panel.

Build 2001-04-26-04: WinME Using the Alt-3pane, I right-click onto the news server and I see the following problems: 1. Message pane disappears and the Folder pane/Thread pane are expanded as expected but I agree that it is visually disturbing. 2. The majority of the Folder pane looks blank (sometimes it's entirely blank), only some folder names are displayed with the context menu in view. Workaround: Scroll up/down in the folder pane and the folder names return. Seth: Maybe this bug should be split in two? Changing the summary to include the term "Alt-3pane"

Perhaps you should only remove/show the preview pane and change the outliner view on a left button click?

marking nsbeta1+ and moving to 0.9.2 I think we should try to fix point #2 that nbaca mentions. If we can easily fix the right click part without messing up the way context menus work on the rest of folders (right now I think a lot of folder context menu commands depend on the folder being loaded and therefore the right click acting like the left click is useful) then we should do that, too. Reassigning to ssu.

moving to 0.9.3

Perhaps this will help: Using 2001060520 in the Alt-3pane. 3 News accounts, all expanded. When I move the top-left pane's scroll bar to the bottom so that the third news account is shown, then right-click, a newsgroup in another news account gets displayed and the right-click action happens as if I right-clicked on that group. I think the problem area is the right-click action is being treated as a left-click, then right click. If I simply left-click the news account, the 3pane is gone and is replaced by the 2pane account overview. The mouse pointer rests on top of the newsgroup that displays when I right-click the news account. Perhaps you can move the mouse pointer when you re-draw the account settings page so that the mouse stays on top of the news account that was clicked. Or, maybe you can create a different account settings page that uses the 3 paned window rather than creating a new 2 paned window. Just have it open in what would be the message pane of either 3 pane window. HTH, Tim

Missed 0.9.3.

Mail news triage meeting --> .9.5

moving to 0.9.6

moving to 1.0

WFM: alt-3pane (wide preview pane) moz build 20030312 w98. I have the preview pane open with a message selected and right-clicked on a server in the upper left 'frame'. Context menu appears, no other changes to the display. David

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060101 SeaMonkey/1.5a

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