Package: thunderbird Version: 1:60.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
In recent versions of Thunderbird (I'm not exactly certain when this started), there has been a change in the style of the "drag icon" that appears when attempting to select individual email messages from the listings pane. This change has made it very difficult to use drag-and-drop to move messages between folders, e.g., when sorting and filing the contents of my inbox. It used to be that if I wished to take several messages from one folder and move them to another, I could select the desired messages in the email listings pane, then click and drag to the desired folder in the folder pane. While I was doing this, the cursor changed (if I remember correctly) to a closed fist or something like that, but it was still only cursor-sized, so it was possible to see which folder name I was hovering over and confirm that the correct one was highlighted before I "dropped" the messages into that folder. Now, when I click and drag, my little closed fist cursor floats in the middle of a huge rectangle containing slightly miniaturized images of the subject lines and to/from information and so forth (everything visible in the email listings pane) for all the emails that I've selected. If, when I click to begin my click-and-drag, the cursor is centered in the middle of the desired block of emails, the cursor will be in the center of this huge rectangle as well. Thus, when I hover over the folder pane to attempt a drop, the giant block completely obscures the folder names and I cannot tell whether I am dropping the emails into the correct folder. I can sort of work around this by very carefully beginning my click-and-drag from one of the corners of the desired block of emails, but it's still very hard to see what I'm doing. The only alternative is to right-click, choose "Move To", and page through the folder tree in the right-click menu. This works, but it is irritating to have to change my workflow. Please revert the click-and-drag icon for this case to a simple closed-fist cursor or something similarly cursor-sized, so that it will be usable again. If this is not desired, an alternative would be to force the giant rectangle showing what's being dragged to snap to a specific fixed position relative to the cursor point, so that the cursor point will always be slightly outside of one of the corners of the rectangle and what it is hovering over can be clearly seen. As a last resort, some level of transparency applied to the drag icon might at least mitigate the issue. - Anne -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages thunderbird depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.6 ii fontconfig 2.13.0-5 ii libatk1.0-0 2.28.1-1 ii libc6 2.27-6 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.15.12-1 ii libcairo2 1.15.12-1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.10-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-3 ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4 ii libffi6 3.2.1-8 ii libfontconfig1 2.13.0-5 ii libfreetype6 2.8.1-2 ii libgcc1 1:8.2.0-5 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.12-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.0-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.0-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-3 ii libhunspell-1.6-0 1.6.2-1+b1 ii libicu60 60.2-6 ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3 ii libnspr4 2:4.19-3 ii libnss3 2:3.38-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-3 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.42.4-3 ii libsqlite3-0 3.24.0-1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-5 ii libstdc++6 8.2.0-5 ii libvpx5 1.7.0-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.6-1 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.6-1 ii libxcb-shm0 1.13-3 ii libxcb1 1.13-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 ii psmisc 23.1-1+b1 ii x11-utils 7.7+4 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 Versions of packages thunderbird recommends: ii lightning 1:60.0-3 ii myspell-en-us [myspell-dictionary] 1:3.3.0-4 Versions of packages thunderbird suggests: ii apparmor 2.13-8 ii fonts-lyx 2.3.0-2 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.16-2 -- no debconf information
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