1106783 - Temporary list artefacts when exiting Mailing List (ML) Properties dialogue via [OK]: Contacts Side Bar shows ML recipients instead of AB contents, and selected ML display in main AB window replaces last list member with an instance of containing ML

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1061648 +++

We did a very good thing in bug 1061648, but in the jungle of the current AB, it's not good enough yet...

Regression from bug 1061648

STR

- create custom TestAB with TestList mailing list having
<[e-mail]>,<[e-mail]>,<[e-mail]>
- in TestAB (NOT in the list!), create more contacts
<[e-mail]>,<[e-mail]> 
1 select TestList in folder list of main AB view
2 compose new msg, F9 to show contacts side bar, choose TestAB from AB dropdown, and select TestList
3 from contacts side bar, open Properties of TestList (on Windows, do NOT use universal Alt+Enter shortcut for properties because it would be too platform-consistent, too efficient and too safe hence forbidden fruit, waiting for somebody to commit the sweet sin in Bug 998312; until then it's move mouse to where your keyboard focus already is, right-click, navigate context menu, click Properties and make sure that click is precisely positioned or else you might end up deleting the list...)
4 Close Mailing List Properties dialogue using [OK] button
5 Observe content of TestAB list pane in contacts side bar
6 Observe content of TestList list pane in main AB window

Actual result
5 In contacts side bar, TestAB list pane unexpectedly shows only contacts contained in TestList (<[e-mail]>,<[e-mail]>,<[e-mail]>)
6 In main AB window, TestList list pane unexpectedly swaps the last list member <[e-mail]> with another functional instance of TestList (wrongly suggesting the TestList contains a copy of itself).
In both cases, selecting something else which forces update of list pane, then going back to TestAB or TestList respectively will clear the wrong stuff

Expected result
5 Contacts sidebar, contents of TestAB should continue to be shown
6 Main AB window, content of TestList should continue to be shown correctly

Stephen, could you look into this? Tia :)

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #0)
> - create custom TestAB having foo1 with TestList mailing list having

"having foo1" is having too much in that sentence, so just strike those two words

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

FTR: Seen on Daily 36.0a1 (2014-11-23), using WinXP

Comment 3

[Stephen Schaub]

I tested the repro steps in comment #0 on build 37.0a1. I had difficulty getting the same results. For example, Actual Result step 6 occurred for me in both the contacts sidebar and the main AB window; I did not observe the behavior described in Actual Result step 5.

I do not believe that this behavior results from the patch for bug 1061648, because when I tested release 31.3.0, which does not contain the patch, I got similar results. Also, when I removed the code for 1061648, the behavior continued to be exhibited. Not sure what's going on here.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Unfortunately, it is no longer possible since TB 102 to view or edit a mailing list directly from contacts sidebar (see Bug 1771795 Comment 9, ymmv), which makes this bug obsolete.