119162 - Sorting by tag/label is incorrect when label added

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Malcolm Box]

In the summary view when sorted by lablel, adding a new label does not cause the
view to resort, nor does toggling the label sort direction.  The only way to get
the new label to be properly sorted is to first sort by another field, then go
back to sorting by label.

To reproduce:

1. Have a mailbox with some emails labelled and others not
2. Select sort by label
3. Now add a label to a previously unlabelled email.  The sort order does not update
4. Now toggle the label sort order by clicking on the "label" column heading. 
The sort is incorrect (the newly labelled email is not sorted with the other labels)
5. Click on another column heading such as date, and then back on label.  The
emails are now correctly sorted.

Comment 1

[Malcolm Box]

Failed to specify the build - using latest nightly (2002010903)

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

labels -> ssu.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

right, that's the same as all the other sorts - for example, reading a message
when sorting by status doesn't change the sort order. If you sort by some other
column and then sort by label, the labels will be sorted. The views basically
don't update dynamically. For example, if you're only viewing messages that are
unread, when you read a message, we don't remove it from the view. We could
change the label sort, but none of the other views work that way.

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

I agree.  This would be too confusing.  It is possible that I click on the wrong
label.  If it updates automatically, I will have to scroll to find it just to
change it to the correct label.  This is not intuitive at all.  If something is
sorted, and I change it, it is clear that I am going against what the sort
results were.  If I want to re-sort it, I will do it manually.

Comment 5

[Malcolm Box]

OK, I can accept that you might not want instant resort.  But labels and other
sorts are still working differently, for the case when you click on the sort
column again.

For example, if you sort on Status, and then mark a read message unread, it
stays in the same place (which is right).  Now click on "Status" again to sort,
and the message will pop to the right place in the sort order.

With labels, this does not happen - you have to sort by some other field first
before going back to sorting by label.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #5)
> OK, I can accept that you might not want instant resort.  But labels and other
> sorts are still working differently, for the case when you click on the sort
> column again. [...] you have to sort by some other field first
> before going back to sorting by label.

That's bug 181143.