201504 - Manually hidden channels cannot be shown again with /join #channel

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Daniel Bachran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

After bug 190747 has been checked in (e.g. with ChatZilla version 0.8.26)
manually hidden channels cannot be shown again with /join #channel anymore. The
recovery of hidden views is documented in
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/irc/DYK#45.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. join any #channel
2. manually type "/hide" while in the channel view to hide the channel
3. type "/join #channel" in any other view (belonging to the same network)

Actual Results:  
After step 1 the #channel view is being hidden but after step 3 it is not shown
again, i.e. the #channel view is no longer visible.

Expected Results:  
After step 3 the #channel view should be visible again.

Hidden #channel views are still being shown when any activity happens on this
#channel (e.g. users joining/leaving/talking). But it cannot be shown anymore by
typing "/join #channel" which breaks the up-to-now only method to manually
rearrange the tabs in CZ. (There is also bug 194913 which might make this bug
not so important anymore but is not directly related to this bug.)

Comment 1

[Robert Ginda]

The chatzilla 0.9.x branch has landed on the trunk and should be available in
tomorrow's nightly build.  If you believe this bug has not actually been fixed,
please repoen it.