Closed Bug 130310 Opened 22 years ago Closed 21 years ago

collaped mail or addressbook folder list is not preloaded for default state

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED
mozilla1.4alpha

People

(Reporter: schnitz76, Assigned: shliang)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression, Whiteboard: [adt2 rtm][ue wanted][twopane],custrtm-)

Attachments

(1 file, 1 obsolete file)

876 bytes, patch
shliang
: review-
shliang
: superreview-
Details | Diff | Splinter Review
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

The mail does not remember folder state when folder list is collapsed. 
Everytime that I want to see my inbox I have to open the folder list on the side
fo the mail program and click on inbox.  If I click to hide the folder list and
then close the mail window the next time that I start the mail portion the
message list area is blank.  I cannot click get message.  I have to click to
open the folder list pane and then click on inbox to see my messages.  If the
folder list pane is left open then it will remember that I had clicked on inbox
before closing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open mail
2. open folder list pane
3. click inbox
4. see messages in inbox
5. close folder pane
6. close mail portion
7. open mail
8. see nothing in message list area

Actual Results:  I did not see my mail messages on the start of the mail portion
as I should have.

Expected Results:  The list of messages in my inbox should have appeared in the
message list area.

I am in windows 2000 sp2.  I have tried this with and without netscape 6.2.1
installed.  Heck, I even tried it on a clean install of win2k.  Does the same
thing everytime.
QA Contact: esther → olgam
To my understanding the problem is that Mail is not opened in the default state
- displaying Inbox content after Account level was collapsed and Mail closed.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
This bug is much worse than stated, If you collape the left pane, exit mail,
then come back, your presented with two completly blank panes. This is very
confusing. I also had a report of someone who had reordered their subfolders,
and suppositivly it loss the order upon them attempting to reproduce this bug.
This effect also affects the addressbook too, if you close its left pane this is
bug 136296
So basically the bug is that if there are folders on the left, and its contents
on the right, even if there is a default folder, it won't be loaded if left pane
is collapsed on load, I don't think this is mailnews specific.
Fix for this is to change in messenger.xul
<vbox id="sidebar-box">
<vbox id="folderPaneBox">

This is what is done in the other 3 pane view (one where bottom window is wide),
and it keeps the folder state. Apparently js code stats the a sidebar-box
doesn't need to be preloaded till its opened. Obviously a folderpanebox would.
Assume the fix for addressbook is simular will look into! :)
*** Bug 136296 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
copying duped keywords  (this wasn't actually dataloss, so dumped that)
Summary: mail does not remember folder state when folder list is collapsed ie. mail will not open to inbox → collaped mail or addressbook folder list is not preloaded for default state
Ok that should be <vbox id="folderPaneBox" persist="width"> as its not
remembering the width you set. Its also setting the default width to something a
bit too small in addressbook and a bit too large in mailnews. It appears as
though sidebar-box did this better, though I can't figure out how? any ideas?
taking
Assignee: sspitzer → shliang
Attached patch patch (obsolete) — Splinter Review
we can't just change id's like that, and besides, changing sidebar-box to
folderpanebox would break sidebar.
The window is unusable with no messages in the message pane and the workaround 
(opening the folder pane and then selecting a folder) is not obvious. 
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Keywords: nsbeta1nsbeta1+
Whiteboard: [adt2 rtm]
Comment on attachment 82079 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

r=ssu
Attachment #82079 - Flags: review+
Whiteboard: [adt2 rtm] → [adt2 rtm][ue wanted]
we'd need this fixed if we really wanted to support two pane mode.

see other [twopane] bugs.
Whiteboard: [adt2 rtm][ue wanted] → [adt2 rtm][ue wanted][twopane]
See discussion and patches in bug 123719.
Whiteboard: [adt2 rtm][ue wanted][twopane] → [adt2 rtm][ue wanted][twopane],custrtm-
QA Contact: olgam → laurel
The only remaining problem I see is that when the address book pane is
originally collapsed then the personal address book isn't selected when you
uncollapse it.
Attached patch patchSplinter Review
addressing neil's last comment
Attachment #82079 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #113608 - Flags: superreview?(sspitzer)
Attachment #113608 - Flags: review?(cavin)
Comment on attachment 113608 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

r=cavin.
Attachment #113608 - Flags: review?(cavin) → review+
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.4alpha
Comment on attachment 113608 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

actually the fix for this is part of bug #135877
Attachment #113608 - Flags: superreview?(sspitzer)
Attachment #113608 - Flags: superreview-
Attachment #113608 - Flags: review-
Attachment #113608 - Flags: review+
Depends on: 135877
marking fixed.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Using trunk build 20020303 on winxp,macosx and linux the problem as orginally
stated is fixed. Verified  
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: laurel → esther
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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