1695476 - View settings related to the calendar are cleared at each Thunderbird starting

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0

Steps to reproduce:

Hi,

Since about 5 days, whenever I start Daily, my View settings about calendar are reset:

1. In View menu, Today, uncheck the box to see it
2. In the calendar, open View menu, Calendar, Calendar panel, and uncheck the box to show it in order it is not displayed
3. In the event list, choose to sort from the starting date.

Actual results:

These setings are reset at each Thunderbird restart.

Expected results:

The settings should remain persistent between each restart of the application.

Comment 1

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

I forgot a point: if you set "Display the current view", at restart, the view is back to "View the 7 next days". Still a thing which should be persistent, as it was before.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

WFM. Both today pane visibility and event search order were maintained when I restarted thunderbird.

Comment 3

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

hmm, what can I provide to help tracking the thing? I dont have particular addons, except signal spam

regareds

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Can you try with the add-on disabled?

Comment 5

[Christian Weiske]

I have the same problem as the bug reporter.
The problem started to occur here when my Ubuntu installation updated Thunderbird from 68 to 78 on 2021-02-19.

• Thunderbird 78.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1~mt1
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Addons:
  -- *cloud - filelink for nextcloud and owncloud
  -- Cardbook
  -- Display Mail User Agent
  -- Message Header Toolbar Customize
  -- TbSync
  -- TbSync provider for CalDAV and CardDAV
  -- Sieve

Comment 6

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

Hi,
(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #4)

Can you try with the add-on disabled?

I did, and I reproduce in safe-mode with addons isable and toolbars not reset.

regards

Comment 7

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Jean-Philippe, can you still reproduce with Thunderbird 91?

Comment 8

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

(In reply to Martin Schröder [:mschroeder] from comment #7)

Jean-Philippe, can you still reproduce with Thunderbird 91?

Unfortunately yes. Same behavior on all the daily releases since the bug report.

Comment 9

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Jean-Philippe, do toolbar customizations survive a restart? Does this also happen for Mail related settings/toolbar customizations?

Comment 10

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

(In reply to Martin Schröder [:mschroeder] from comment #9)

Jean-Philippe, do toolbar customizations survive a restart? Does this also happen for Mail related settings/toolbar customizations?

It does not happen for mails. ANd not for toolbars, ie. if I disable the filter bar, it does not re-appear at startup time. Do you want me to test all the bars?

Another info: while toolbars seem to stay, if I disable the "Today" panel (panel where are displayed the events for today or tomorrow), it is back at the next startup. It does not stay hidden.
Regards

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does this happen with a current beta?
Any thing in tools > developer > error console ?

Comment 12

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #11)

Does this happen with a current beta?

Yes, in nightly I still have it

Any thing in tools > developer > error console ?

Here is something seeming interesting related to the calendar:
Calendar: Error: Property DESCRIPTION not set
setPropertyParameter resource:///components/calItemBase.js:543
getAdditionalDataForItem resource:///modules/calendar/CalStorageItemModel.jsm:832
handleResultInner resource:///modules/calendar/CalStorageDatabase.jsm:234
handleResult resource:///modules/calendar/CalStorageDatabase.jsm:228
CalStorageDatabase.jsm:248