1941471 - Parallel UI for using new folder objects

Status: ASSIGNED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, task)

Description

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

To use the new database, we're going to have to make a few major changes and many minor changes to the mail tab UI. In this bug I'll create a second version of about:3pane (and maybe about:message) so that we can use both implementations in parallel until we're happy with the new code.

Comment 1

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1941471 - Create an adapter for getting messages from a live view to the message list. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

This is the very start of this class which power the message list. With this patch we get messages
from the back end and display them in descending date order. Subsequent patches will add sorting
by other fields and in ascending order as required.

Comment 2

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1941471 - Make the live view data adapter live. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

This patch adds notification abilities to the live view and handles messages added to or removed
from the database.

Comment 3

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1941471 - Enable sorting of the message list by ascending date order. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

This patch has the beginnings of the sort mechanism for live views.

Comment 4

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1941471 - Enable sorting of the message list by subject. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

This is the first textual property we'll be able to sort by.

Comment 5

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1941471 - Implement sender column formatting and sorting. r=#thunderbird-back-end-reviewers

This adds a SQL function for formatting addresses based on the existing preferences for doing so.
I've implemented it in this way so that SQLite can handle most of the sorting (except when new
messages are added) and we don't have to think about it, because it's just the same as any other
property. It's currently quite slow across a large number of messages but that's mostly due to the
header parsing being implemented in JS. We should fix that.

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/478eb4235266
Create an adapter for getting messages from a live view to the message list. r=mkmelin
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/808066c0ebd1
Make the live view data adapter live. r=mkmelin
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/08b235cc8863
Enable sorting of the message list by ascending date order. r=mkmelin
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/7ba87e82d585
Enable sorting of the message list by subject. r=mkmelin
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/1f9b324808fe
Implement sender column formatting and sorting. r=mkmelin

Comment 7

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: Bug 1941471 - Split message flags into columns in LiveViewDataAdapter.js. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

Comment 8

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/698a72b7ceb3
Split message flags into columns in LiveViewDataAdapter.js. r=mkmelin