Thunderbird's progress bar erases background

[Jonathan Thomas]

Binary package hint: gtk-qt-engine-kde4

Thunderbird 2.0.0.12
gtk-qt-engine-kde4 1.1

The background of Thunderbird's progress bar gets erased under certain conditions
Steps to reproduce:
-Click "Get Mail"
-Look at the bottom right corner of the screen. The blue part of the progress bar will go across the widget, erasing the background.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Also, the blue part of the progress bar starts outside the actual bar.

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

Confirmed. The same thing can also be seen at a larger scale by sending an e-mail--as the block rolls across the progress bar for action-with-unknown-progress, the block starts with its right end at the left end of the progress bar:
=====(...................................................................)
instead of what it should be:
          (=====.........................................................)

And the ripply-effect background is erased as the block rolls over it, leaving a plain grey band across the centre of the progress bar.

Attached is a screenshot showing both problems.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Sadly, gtk-qt-engine is a quite broken piece of software and has been removed from distribution. (See bug 404930)
Unfortunately this means that the large number of bugs will not be seeing fixes. :(

For now, the best integration option for KDE is the QtCurve style, (gtk2-engines-qtcurve) which offers a theme quite similar to the default Oxygen theme. The configuration module for gtk-qt-engine has been salvaged and is now living in the kcm-gtk package, which will be available and installed by default in Kubuntu 9.10.

Thanks for understanding. This package tried its best, but in the end did not live up to the standards required by anybody who doesn't like looking at a broken Oxygen imitation.