1511650 - New version 60 doesn't reset highlight of account or system tray icon

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[David S Brumley]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set up message filter to distribute emails from Inbox to user folders.
2. Received emails that were distributed into other folders automatically.
3. Noted that new version highlights root folder and message distribution folders when new emails received.
4. Marked emails as read in the other folders so that all new emails were read.



Actual results:

The highlights on the folder names were cleared when each folder had no more email, but when the last folder was cleared, the root folder remained highlighted, and the icon on the system tray didn't go away.


Expected results:

The root folder should have been un-highlighted and the system tray icon should have been removed when there were no more new unread emails.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

What do you mean by root folder?

Comment 2

[David S Brumley]

The name of my email account, which had Inbox, Drafts, etc, as folders within.

Comment 3

[David S Brumley]

Additional observation: When you go to another window and come back to Thunderbird so it has to refresh the window, the highlights of the root email-address folder is cleared at that time.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Joe, do you see this?

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

By root, you mean the parent folder?
By highlight, you mean the folder is bold? (vs not bold)

Comment 6

[David S Brumley]

By root, I mean the most parent of parent folders, which shows my email address. When new mail comes in and is moved by a message filter to a folder ("Newsletters"), the email address and the Newsletters folder turn bold and orange. I believe the orange highlight is intended to mean new mail as opposed to bold which means unread mail. Note that I am using the dark gray color scheme. When I mark the message read, the Newsletters folder goes back to white but the email address is still orange, and the new mail icon is still present on the task bar. If I click any other folder name, the email address resets to white and the new mail indicator clears from the task bar.

Comment 7

[David S Brumley]

Attachment: Thunderbird bug.jpg

Screenshot shows email has just been marked read in Newsletters folder but email address in parent folder is still orange highlighted for new mail.

Comment 8

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Does this happen with default theme too?

Comment 9

[David S Brumley]

Attachment: Thunderbird bug default.jpg

Same thing happens in default theme.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

David, Do you still see this when using 68 from https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/channel/

IIRC the folder/account color for new messages should be blue, not orange.
Martin, what's up with that?

Comment 11

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

With default theme it's blue. The orange is from the 3rd party theme.

David, can you try, when it's highlighted, what happens when you hover over over the account with the mouse?

Comment 12

[David S Brumley]

Attachment: Thunderbird bug default update.jpg

Using the new beta version... In this screenshot, I have just clicked the "mark as read" button on the top email in the list. It failed to reset the blue highlight on the account name and it failed to clear the new email icon from the task bar. I didn't notice any effect at all when hovering over the highlighted account name with the mouse.

Comment 13

[David S Brumley]

Note in the most recent screenshot that the Inbox folder was already selected and visible when the new email came in. If you have to click "Inbox" with the mouse, that resets the highlights and the above problem doesn't occur.

Comment 14

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you see this with version 78?

Comment 15

[David S Brumley]

It's greatly improved. But there is still a subtle problem I noticed. Give me a couple more days so I can describe it correctly. I don't get all that many emails. Thanks!

Comment 16

[David S Brumley]

Attachment: Thunderbird bug update.jpg

Okay, I caught it. In this screenshot, the Newsletters folder was already selected when the top email came in. At that time, it highlighted the Newsletters folder in blue and had a blue Unread dot next to the email. I clicked the dot, and the screenshot shows what happened. It cleared the blue on the Newsletters folder but not the email account name above. The "new mail" icon didn't clear from the taskbar.