537437 - Need a new preference to allow "New Mail" count for dock icon instead of unread mail count

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Cecelia S]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091206 SeaMonkey/2.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091206 SeaMonkey/2.0.1

The Dock New Mail count shows total unread messages rather than new unread messages (downloaded but unseen).

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
If you have a lot of unread messages then check open MailNew, the dock new mail badge could potentially be in the thousands if you have a lot of old mail that you haven't marked as read.

Expected Results:  
In releases previous to 2.0, the mail count showed only recently downloaded unread mail.

There's a patch being worked on for Thunderbird (Bug #518828). I'd like to see it integrated with SeaMonkey.

Comment 1

[Patrick Nagurny]

Hi Cecelia, if the patch I provided gets committed to the repository, it will update both Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. This particular code is shared between the two of them.

Comment 2

[Cecelia S]

(In reply to comment #1)
Hello, Patrick,

Thanks for letting me know. I asked in the Thunderbird bug but didn't get an answer. I just wanted to make sure that SeaMonkey didn't get left behind and it'd be nice to get it sooner rather than later.

Comment 3

[Cecelia S]

Sorry for the bug spam.

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

no string changes on 2.0.x, if this is done then it can only land on a non-string-frozen tree (like 2.1).

Comment 5

[Karsten Düsterloh]

The pref mail.biff.use_new_count_in_mac_dock introduced in bug 518828 is working as designed in SeaMonkey trunk builds. 
We're not going to add UI for it for the time being.