163171 - Cannot 'watch thread' on a new thread (with only 1 message yet in it)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 122640

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Marc J. Roelofs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020814
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020814

Wanting to see what others answer on a NEW posting, you cannot watch the thread
cause it only contains just one message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Find a single, not-yet threaded message
2.Try to watch it ('W' or /Message/Watch thread)
3.See?
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Show a 'watch thread icon'

Might be the thread is actually watched but there's no way of knowing (certainly
not after pushing 'W' several times sinde it didnt work)

Comment 1

[Marc J. Roelofs]

*** Bug 163172 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

You are sure the thread column is displaying?
WFM, day trunk old CVS, Linux
Resolving as dup of bug 122640, which seems to only be fixed on the trunk.


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

Comment 3

[Marc J. Roelofs]

to R.K.Aa: I'm aware of the RESOLVED DUPLICATE status but wanted to let you know
the following. It seems to me there is confusion about the workings of the
thread-views between the different trunks. This is a complicating factor. If it
seems ok to you i'll post the below content as a follow-up to bug 122640.

The thread column is visible but there is no little 'thread-opener' arrow in
front of the message, as one expects since there is no thread yet.
The funny part is that there are also single-messages that *have* a
'thread-opener' arrow in front of them, but clicking them doesn't have an effect
other than the arrow changing form pointing right to pointing downward. Since
there is no thread, there is nothing to expand.
Those singular messages that _do_ have a pointer can be tagged to 'watch'; those
that do not have an pointer triangle cannot be marked.

There is no apparent reason why some singular messages do have a pointer arrow
and some don't. Maybe there should be a separate bugreport about this
'single-mesage thread' behaviour.

Comment 4

[laurel]

The bug about showing a "thread opener" or "twisty" when there shouldn't be is
covered by bug 158217