248912 - Undo in bookmarks manager should undo "Sort Folder By Name" (Ctrl+N) and "Sort Folder" (Ctrl+S) commands

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Gabriel Seah]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040623
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040623

I was sorting my bookmarks and accidentally selected "Sort Folder By Name" in
the right click menu.

I frantically pressed "Ctrl + Z" to try to undo this, but it didn't work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a bookmarks folder with tons of bookmarks
2. Choose "Sort Folder By Name" or "Sort Folder" and press "ok"
3. Cry as your painstakingly arranged bookmarks go haywire
Actual Results:  
My bookmarks remained sorted by name

Expected Results:  
My old bookmark sorting should have returned

Comment 1

[Gabriel Seah]

Would the keyword "dataloss" be appropriate? Sorting order is arguable a form of
data.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

a similar problem was the issue in bug 88347, where it turned out that a third
click on the relevant column reset to original sort order. Is that not the case
with the "Name" column?

Comment 3

[Gabriel Seah]

If I choose "Sort Folder By Name", clicking on the "Name" column repeatedly does
nothing to restore the original sort order.

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

Known issue, see related Bug 209198.

Comment 5

[Gabriel Seah]

209198 - WFM. I can't reproduce the bug on my current build.

This is a different issue.

Comment 6

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #5)
> This is a different issue.
Oh, I see. Sorry.

Comment 7

[Bill Gillooly]

Keep the "sort by name" functionality give us a new and unique key-combo to make
it happen.

Keep the old command-n (Mac) for "New Navigator Window"

Comment 8

[Gabriel Seah]

This is a Firefox bug as well, but I don't think there's a way to mark it as a
bug for both Seamonkey and Firefox (?)

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 10

[Gabriel Seah]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050930 Firefox/1.4

Choosing "Sort by name" on the Bookmarks Manager context menu (as opposed to
clicking on the "name" column) is still irreversible.

I tried to refile this as a core bug, but I don't know where this fits; please
assist.

Comment 11

[OstGote!]

FF has/will fork BM code, so it is not a Core bug. But i can confirm it with SeaMonkey 1.5a trunk build 2005122111 on WinXP and did not found an existing report.

Comment 12

[Ray Booysen]

Reassigning as per Bug #32644

Comment 13

[Phoenix]

Now, if you accidentally sort bookmarks by some column you can twice click same column and this removes sorting, so closing as WFM
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