mail.folderpane.sumSubfolders in config editor doens't work in supernova
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: sangil.editplus, Unassigned)
Details
(Keywords: regression, Whiteboard: [Supernova3p])
Steps to reproduce:
From Settings -> Config Editor
Sets mail.folderpane.sumSubfolders option as "false".
Actual results:
Select 'Show Total Message Count' from folder pane.
It shows message count including all subfolders although mail.folderpane.sumSubfolders is set 'false'.
Expected results:
It should show message count on parent folder only.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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I can also confirm this bug.
The preference no longer works.
Nova 115.20. on Debian 11.
Now on Thunderbird 140.3.1.esr.
To my eyes, it seems not to be any significant visual difference in setting:
mail.folderpane.sumSubfolders to TRUE
and/or
mail.folderpane.sumSubfolders to FALSE
In both cases, I get the number of new/unread messages badge on folder's pane under top level folder (when collapsed) and sub-folders (when uncollapsed).
Not sure what's the mean/use of this variable.
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Comment 5•17 days ago
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Thanks for the report.
I'm curious to understand what is the usefulness of this pref and what are the use cases.
To me this seems like an incorrect state that doesn't bring any benefit, so I'm inclined to not needing to reimplement this and just remove it entirely.
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Comment 6•17 days ago
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It very much needs reimplementing! Previously, if you set this to FALSE, when you collapsed a folder, the count for that subfolder was just the count of the messages in that subfolder, rather than the sum of the messages in that subfolder AND the count of the messages in all its subfolders.
At the moment, when you collapse a subfolder, the count is always the sum of the parent's messages and all its subfolders; there's no way to say "I just want to see this one folder's count, not a cumulative count of all its children."
Hope that helps clear things up!
(In reply to Alessandro Castellani [:aleca] - PTO until Nov 16 from comment #5)
Thanks for the report.
I'm curious to understand what is the usefulness of this pref and what are the use cases.
To me this seems like an incorrect state that doesn't bring any benefit, so I'm inclined to not needing to reimplement this and just remove it entirely.
No, please don't remove it.
It was super useful when it worked!
Here is how it should work:
mail.folderpane.sumSubfolders=true
Inbox [5]
--SubFolder1 [10]
--SubFolder2 [20]
mail.folderpane.sumSubfolders=false
Inbox [5]
--SubFolder1 [10]
--SubFolder2 [20]
The difference is when the Inbox folder is collapsed:
mail.folderpane.sumSubfolders=false
Inbox [5]
mail.folderpane.sumSubfolders=true
Inbox [35]
I used this to manage mails that i need to work on, and i therefore left in the Inbox.
When the task is done i move them into a subfolder.
With the Inbox collapsed you immediately see the count of mails that need attention.
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Comment 8•16 days ago
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(In reply to iik from comment #7)
No, please don't remove it.
It was super useful when it worked!
Here is how it should work:
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Thanks... that's a much clearer explanation!
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