178831 - Make Folder Pane column headers not "depress" when clicked, since they don't sort

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Patrick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021106
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021106

In the folder pane, i display the column headers NAME, UNREAD and SIZE. The
column headers can be clicked but nothing happens, the sorting arrow keeps
pointing down in the NAME field.

I guess there are two ways to go about this : 
- Nothing should happen when clicking the headers (aka, this is by design): then
the UI should change to make sure that the headers don't give the impression
that they do something
- (Sorting) actions should be assigned to clicking the column headers


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. view multiple columns in the folder pane
2. click through the column headers
3.

Actual Results:  
nothing happens

Expected Results:  
1) do something
or
2) headers shouldn't have been clickable

Comment 1

[laurel]

We don't support reordering the folder pane.  There is an existing bug about it
reordering in some instances, but then it's very difficult to reset it to the
default.   Will haveto look for that bug and perhaps another RFE for sorting,
but basically we don't support folder pane sort at this time.

Comment 2

[Pete]

Well, how 'bout disabling it then?

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Generic folder sort is bug 193314.  Newsgroup sort is bug 97186.

See also bug 190641, which appears to have been fixed and which should make the
non-clickability of the column headers a little more palatable.  Patrick, if
that bug's resolution satisfies you, please mark this bug as Resolved|WorksForMe.

Comment 4

[Patrick]

The sort arrows are indeed gone [bug 190641].

But the column headers still appear clickable in 20030601 [i.e., they go down as
if they were a button if you click on them]. Therefore leaving this bug in its
current state.

Disabling that behaviour as indicated by comment 2 would be satisfactory. 

Comment 5

[Patrick]

*** Bug 140257 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Comment 7

[Patrick]

not present in Thunderbird version 1.6a1 (20050924) on "Tiger"

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #7)
> not present in Thunderbird version 1.6a1 (20050924) on "Tiger"

There still are clickable column headers (that do nothing when clicked) in 
TB 1.6a1 and Seamonkey 1.0a; but TB has a setting that turns off the columns 
entirely, which you're probably using.