visual glitches when messages are selected with the keyboard

[AmenophisIII]

Binary package hint: claws-mail

im using ubuntu intrepid and claws-mail 3.5.0-2ubuntu1.

when your focus is inside the message list you can select multiple messages by holding shift or ctrl and either click other messages or moving with the cursor keys.
while doing it with the mouse everything looks ok, but if you do it with the keyboard the selection gets stuck, even if you unselect the messages/select another message.

how to reproduce:
open a folder with at least 2 (better 3) messages.
select the first message (pos1 or with mouse).
press and hold shift and hit the down key at least once (or press end) and relase shift.
some (all) messages are now selected. this selection is stuck:
if you click on any message or hit up/down/pos1/end you would expect the old selection to be abandoned, but it isnt.
im pretty sure its only visually stuck and the right messages are selected and processed e.g. if you declare them as spam or drag'n'drop them.

there is also another glitch when you unselect messages with ctrl+click.
the old selection remains as kind of a shadow (the yellow selection is cleared, but the black frame remains) until you select und unselect it again (with the mouse or by "sweeping" by with the cursor keys).

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

Is this still an issue in Jaunty?
Thank you

[AmenophisIII (amenophisiii)]

yes, no change

[Ilya Barygin (randomaction)]

Claws mail 3.7.2-1ubuntu3, karmic.
The first problem doesn't exist for me, but the Ctrl+click deselection indeed leaves glitches.

[AmenophisIII (amenophisiii)]

interesting... i still have both problems (same version).
maybe this is a gui framework problem?

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Lucid Lynx. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . If you could test the current Ubuntu development version, this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect 311836.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I can not reproduce this issue using claws-mail 3.7.4 in the final version of Ubuntu 10.04. If you can reproduce bug, please tell me how to reproduce using detailed steps. Also change the status back to 'new' in the yellow line above.

[AmenophisIII (amenophisiii)]

the situation has improved since i reported the bug, but there is still a minor bug present (in 3.7.4, lucid final).

how to reproduce:
open a folder with at least one message (A) in view (threaded or not is not important).
select A by clicking or keyboard (should happen automatically anyway after opening)
<A gets a black border and blue background (in my gnome color scheme)>
unselect it by holding ctrl and clicking A
<background of A returns to normal, the black border remains>

this also happens if you select more than one message at the beginning.
if the area is redrawn the border is removed. this can happen by switching desktops, moving/resizing the window etc.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for your response. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[misanthropos (misanthropos)]

This bug is still existent in Ubuntu 14.04 with claws mail 3.9.3 using fluxbox as window manager.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

Does it still happen with the latest Claws in 16.04? I can't reproduce this.

[Stefan Tauner (stefanct)]

Nope, has been fixed in the mean time. I don't know which version fixed it though.