138145 - "Watch thread" only works properly when more than one message in that thread is unread

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 122640

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[max-mozilla]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020313
BuildID:    2002031312

The "watch thread" feature only serves its purpose when there is more than one
message currently unread (regardless of how many messages are actually in the
thread).  The eye icon only showed up on the thread icon, which in turn only
shows up when there is more than one message currently unread.  Hitting the "W"
key in such a case does not do appear to do anything at all, since there is no
thread icon on which the eye icon would appear.  Since the purpose of this
feature is to identify threads that you're interested in at a glance, it is
effectively unusable.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read news.
2. Find an isolated unread message (one that has no thread icon).
3. Hit W.


Actual Results:  Nothing happens; there is no indication that thread is now
watched, since there is no thread icon present on which the eye icon could appear.


Expected Results:  There should be some meaningful indication that the thread is
watched, regardless of how many articles are CURRENTLY unread.


This worked properly in Netscape 4.x.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

I wanna say something stupid but : a thread get at least 2 messages ?!

Comment 2

[laurel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122640 ***

Comment 3

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate