209201 - sorting in Bookmark Manager doesn't sort across folders

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Daniel B.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

In the Bookmark Manager window, clicking on a column heading to sort the list
does not sort the whole list of bookmarks, but only sorts within bookmark
folders.

Mozilla should either:

1.  Sort across all (except in "unsorted" mode, of course).

2.  Provide two forms of sorting, one across folders and one within folders.

This is a Netscape 4.x parity bug:  It allowed sorting without regard to
folders.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click on a column heading.
2.  Notice that bookmarks still appear under the same folders, and that
    bookmarks in different bookmarks are not sorted into locations next
    to each other.


Actual Results:  
See step 2.

Comment 1

[j]

WHY would you want to sort across folders???  I place bookmarks into folders for
a reason; that is where I want them.  Sorting across folders would obviate that
organization.  IMO this is not a 'bug' at all [but a 'feature', as one of my
development friends would say].  I would suggest this should be removed.  

Comment 2

[Daniel B.]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WHY would you want to sort across folders???  I place bookmarks into folders for
> a reason; that is where I want them.  Sorting across folders would obviate that
> organization.  IMO this is not a 'bug' at all [but a 'feature', as one of my
> development friends would say].  I would suggest this should be removed.  

I agree.

(Huh?)

I must have written then before I noticed that Mozilla wasn't just 
changing the display order but was actually rearranging how they were 
stored.

Yes, I agree that sorting the bookmarks permanently destroys the user's
effort in arrangement the bookmarks.

How do I retract this report?

Comment 3

[Peter Weilbacher]

Reporter wants to retract report -> marking invalid.