179356 - Mark as read (maybe other) doesn't work right on list with ctrl-click after shift-click

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Sean Redmond]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021108
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021108

When you are selecting a list of messages the mark as read (and perhaps perform
other actions) it doesn't work right if you ctrl-click to exclude an item after
shift-clicking to select a range:



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a message and shift-click on another to select a range.
2. Ctrl-click on something in the range to deselect it.
3. Press 'M' to mark as read (this should work)
4. Regret what you've done.
5. Press 'M' again to mark them as unread -- nothing happens
Actual Results:  
Messages previously marked as read and still selected remained marked as read

Expected Results:  
They should have toggled back to unread

Comment 1

[Sean Redmond]

Same behavior with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021017

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Sean Redmond, can you still reproduce this bug with a current build?

If you select one message, then shift-click to select a range, isn't the first
message already marked unread from having been selected?  (Unless you have
turned off the message-body pane.)  I've seen slightly inconsistent results when
the selection contains mixed read and unread messages: usually it sets
everything to read, but I have seen it reset an read message to unread -- and
that is what happened when I tried to follow your procedure (on a group of
messages that were all unread to start).

Comment 3

[Sean Redmond]

It now works as expected using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b)
Gecko/20030507. I'll test in on Windows as soon as I get a chance.

I usually do have the message-body pane turned off, so it doesn't mark the first
message read. But it works more or less as expected with the message-body pane
on. Starting with unread messages, the first message is marked read after step
1; when you press 'M' to mark the whole group as read, the read message gets
changed to unread, but I guess it's hard to decide what to do for a mixed range.
Press 'M' again and they are all marked read.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Sean, have you had a chance to check this on Windows yet?

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response; =>WFM (based in part on reporter's comment 3).