227601 - previous button not working in view message window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 235666

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Dmitri Vassilenko]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.23 (Windows NT 5.1; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4RC2 (20031204)

Previous/Next buttons refuse to work when viewing a message in a separate 
window. Keyboard shortcuts (f/b) work properly.

Originally, the buttons weren't there. I had to customly insert them into the 
toolbar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a message
2. Right click on the main panel > Customize
3. Drag Previous and Next buttons onto the panel
4. Click Done
5. Try clicking the buttons

Actual Results:  
Nothing ... nothing at all.

Expected Results:  
Moved onto the previous or next message in the inbox.

I'm using the default theme in RC2.

Yesterday, before I upgraded to RC2 from 0.3, the buttons worked. After one 
system reboot, only "Next" was working. After another reboot, both previous and 
next buttons stopped working.

Extensions:
-Get all messages
-Quote Colors 0.1b (not upgraded since the move from 0.3)
-RAF v0.0.2 [2003 19 24] (not upgraded since the move from 0.3)
-SmoothWheel v0.32 (2003-08-02)
-Enigmail v0.82.4

Comment 1

[Dmitri Vassilenko]

Had to reinstall Thunderbird today. Imported the profile folders without the 
chrome folder. Now, the Previous button is the only one not working. The Next 
button is working only partially. It asks me whether I'd like to advance to the 
next unread message in Inbox. It should just go to the next message.

Comment 2

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

That's the way these buttons work, they go to the previous/next *unread*
message. If there's no unread message the previous button does nothing.

Comment 3

[Dmitri Vassilenko]

I see.

Nevertheless, it's inconsistent. The Previous button does nothing, but the Next 
button asks whether I want to go to the next unread message.

Thanks for the clarification, though.

Comment 4

[Troodon]

Dupe of of bug 235666 ?

Comment 5

[Dave]

I also find this most frustrating.  In other mail readers, I use previous/next
to move backwards and forwards between messages, regardless of whether they are
read or unread.  Can I request that next/previous message buttons be provided as
well as (or instead of) the current ones.

Comment 6

[Anil Sarwal]

The previous unread message button works that way.  But it would be more useful
to  have a button that would take u to the previous message.  Please reply if
there is any such hope.

Comment 7

[Thom Hehl]

This is still a problem under linux with Thunderbird 1.0.2. This problem should
be  of normal severity instead of minor.

Comment 8

[Rob Hudson]

I'm no UI person but I thought this was busted when I tried to use it.  All my
messages were read and I wanted to use prev/next to cycle through them.  My idea
being that I could have the message list pane w/o the preview pane and have the
view window to read the messages.  This is good for a small screen laptop where
you don't have a lot of screen real estate.  Clicking the buttons did nothing
which made me search for the bug.  My vote would be to let them work to view any
message.

Running on Mac OS X (iBook 12"), Thunderbird 1.0.6

Comment 9

[Seungbeom Kim]

For me, the [Next] button works as expected (just like the "N" key)
but the [Previous] button doesn't work at all, nor does the "P" key.

Thunderbird version 1.5.0.2 (20060308)

Comment 10

[Mary Ann Simmons]

The "next" button works; the "previous" button does not.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does this still reproduce?

Comment 12

[:aceman]

Just to be sure, this is talking about the "Next"/"Previous" buttons, not about "Back"/"Forward" ?

If I add those, then I can kinda see this problem:
Starting at the first unread message, using Next works fine (advances next and reads the message). But using Previous moves to the first message in the folder (even when it is already read). Pressing Previous again has no effect, even when there are unread messages in the folder (and Next would move to them). The shortcuts "P" and "N" behave this same way. That is probably comment 9. Maybe it is intentional?

The tooltips on those buttons specifically say that that move among the Unread messages, so there should be no confusion today.

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #12)
> Just to be sure, this is talking about the "Next"/"Previous" buttons, not
> about "Back"/"Forward" ?

yes

do you read this as a dupe of bug 235666?  my 30sec skim reads the same.

Comment 14

[:aceman]

Yes, the original description and up to comment 8 look like bug 235666.