1780227 - Upon restart Thunderbird does not remember customised AppMenu position (AppMenu always moved to right-most position)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[Anje]

Windows 10
version 102.0.2

Start Thunderbird in Normal Mode.
Use 'Customise' Mail Toolbar - I positioned the 'Menu icon' on far left of 'Mail Toolbar' and also positiona asepartor between 'Menu icon' and 'Get Messages' button.
Later I exit Thunderbird.
Upon restart the separator is still on the left, but the Menu icon has reverted to the right. This is wrong.

Reset the Menu Icon on far left.
Went into Troubleshoot Mode - 'Help' > 'TRoubleshoot Mode'
Did not select any of the checkboxes - just 'Continue in TRoubleshoot mode'
by default the 'Menu icon' was now on far right - expected as this is the default.
Later return to normal - 'Help' > 'Turn Troubleshoot Mode off'
Thunderbird restarts in normal mode.

However, the 'Menu icon' is still on the far right. It did not return to the far left as per my customise selection.

Expect: any customise selections to be retained and used in normal mode because I did not select the Troubleshoot option 'Reset Toolbars and controls' nor did I make any customisation whilst in Troubleshoot Mode.

The 'Menu icon' should have appeared positioned on the far left when I returned to Normal Mode.

Exit Thunderbird.
Open the xulstore.json file.
the 'button-appmenu' is written to be on far right.
Start Thunderbird and Menu app icon is on the right.
Use 'Customise' and reposition on the far left - in image it is shown on the left side.
Exit Thunderbird and check the 'xulstore.json' file and now it is correctly showing the 'button-appmenu' followed by separator' on far left.
Open Thunderbird - separtor on far left and menu icon on far right - this is wrong.
Open xulstore.json and now the separator is on the far left and the button-appmenu' is on far right.

Something is overwriting the xulstore.json upon start and whilst it remembers the position of any item added via Customise, it is rewriting the position of the menu icon which is not acceptable.

The default position of the 'menu app icon' is not a logical position because I read from left to right, so all menus would be on my left.
This was never a problem in version 91.11.0 or indeed any previous version.
I updated to version 102.0.2 (did not use any beta etc before updating) and this is a new fault.

To be honest this fault is driving me potty and it's position is very important.
I should not have to keep moving things back to correct setting upon every start up.

Comment 1

[Anje]

Attachment: menuicon-pos-102-0-2.jpg

Image shows -
Xulstore - before start of Thunderbird - menu icon on the right.
Start TB - use 'Customise' to move Menu icon plus add separator as shown on the left side of image.

Exit Thunderbird and open xulstore - it shows correct update - see top right
Start Thunderbird - separator still on left but menu icon wrongly displayed on right. see top right

Open xulstore and you can see this has been overwritten by something. see bottom right
I did not move that menu icon to the right.

Comment 2

[Anje]

This fault occurs when normal restart following a normal mode exit.
This fault occurs when returning to normal mode from troubleshoot mode.

So any restart causes this problem.

Comment 3

[kiki]

Duplicates:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1778224

Comment 4

[Sylwester Zarębski]

Still not fixed - the same problem in 102.6.0.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Shouldn't happen with 115 nor 128.
Can you confirm?

Comment 6

[Anje]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #5)

Shouldn't happen with 115 nor 128.
Can you confirm?

Version 115.14.0 and version beta 130.0b2
The 'menu app icon' is by default visible on the new 'Unified Toolbar' positioned far right.

It would be reasonable to say the situation has become worse since version 102*.
If you right click on 'Unified Toolbar' and select 'Customise' - the menu app icon is not visible.
It is not offered as something which can be moved to another position or removed etc.
The 'Search' by default has flexispace on either side and nothing else unless you have added something like 'Write'.
The Menu app icon (3 lines) is a hidden item via this traditional customise option.

Example: In xulstore this the 'Mail' tab.
"unifiedToolbar":{"state":"{"mail":["get-messages","write-message","tag-message","quick-filter-bar","spacer","search-bar","ext-{2ab1b709-ba03-4361-abf9-c50b964ff75d}","spacer","[e-mail]"],\

The menu app icon should be at the end after ImportExportTools, but it is not there.

Using Developer Tools the 'Unified toolbar' has three flex areas but only 'unifiedToolbarContent' can be 'Customised'

1. id=unifiedToolbarContent
2. id=notification-popup-box
3. toolbarbutton id=button-appmenu

Current situation
Menu app icon button cannot be Customised /moved.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

AppMenu is no longer part of customize. So its permanent location is on the right side.