256550 - Global Threading Option

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Emily Bowman]

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This isn't major, but I'd like to see a global threading switch. When on, every
folder and view except what is specifically marked not-threaded is threaded;
when off, everything acts as it does now. (Possibly including search results,
but that might be overreaching.)

Anytime I copy my profile to another machine/install or restore a backed-up
profile, all of the per-folder view options reset. Occasionally, but not really
reproducably, folders seem to randomly lose their threadedness as well, which
necessitates redoing everything.

Alternately, at least take per-folder threaded/unthreaded (which should be a
single checkmark option anyway since it's only a binary value) out of the bottom
of the view->sort by submenu, and place it at the top of the threads subfolder,
where it would be more logical.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy profile to new computer
2. Check threaded-ness of folders.
Actual Results:  
Old folders are no longer threaded.

Expected Results:  
All folders should be threaded. (That's how my setup is, anyway.)

Comment 1

[Matija Grabnar]

This also happens with thunderbird-0.8.3 (Debian unstable). My thinking is that
it may be reseting the focus whenver it receives a notify from the IMAP server
that a new mail has arrived. 

I am not absolutely sure of this, because it often resets when there isn't a new
mail visible - but that may just indicate that a new message has arrived into
one of the OTHER subscribed folders, not the currently viewed one.

Please, please fix this. I find it terribly disrupting to my workflow.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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