104048 - Go To Message Folder opens new three-pane view

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[blandon ray]

Build ID: 2001101003 on win32

The Go To Message Folder button (see bug 56419) behaves strangely when used to
search newsgroup messages.

For example, if I have the three-pane thread view open to, say,
netscape.public.mozilla.general, and I Search Messages by subject, I eventually
get a Results window with a list of matching results. If I select one message
and click the Go To Message Folder button, it opens a brand new three-pane view,
which promptly refreshes the new message counts from the server, and does
nothing else. It also fails to display the message I had previously selected,
but I think this aspect is covered in bug 103780.

The expected behavior would be that the selected message appears highlighted in
the Thread pane of the existing window, if any, and is displayed in the Message
pane below (I apologize if I don't have the terminology exactly right). This was
the behavior in Communicator 4.x.

Comment 1

[blandon ray]

adding cc, per request in n.p.m.mailnews.

Comment 2

[laurel]

Just some background info: 4.x doesn't open a new window regardless of the 
window settings pref; Go to Folder in 4.x goes to message in current mail 
window.

Comment 3

[Navin Gupta]

over to seth

Comment 4

[laurel]

*** Bug 119695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Max Waterman]

This is an annoyance for me too, but for mail. I want the 'Open Message Folder'
to use an existing window if there is one with that folder already open; as per
NS 4.X behaviour.

Max.

Comment 6

[laurel]

nominating for next release

Comment 7

[Helge Hielscher]

Shouldnt this bug have the 4xp keyword?

Comment 8

[Ninoschka Baca]

The spec (http://mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/search/) does not specify whether a
new window should appear or an existing window. I would expect it to adhere to
the Mail & News/Windows, preference setting:

"When opening messages, display them in:
- A new mesage window
- An existing message window"

Comment 9

[Samir Gehani]

Mail triage team: nsbeta1-

Comment 10

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 11

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420