Closed Bug 263349 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

When in grouped mode, clicking the sort indicator for the existing sort column..

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: mscott, Assigned: Bienvenu)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

...pops you out of the grouped mode without restoring the column order for the
tree widget.

Probably something in threadPane.js
I've seen this in the past, but it works for me, trunk and branch. There must be
some key to getting this to happen that I haven't figured out yet.
With TB 0.9 (20041103) I can reproduce this I believe.

Here are more details from what I can see.  The sort state is from: 
by date
unthreaded | threaded
ascending | descending

I have tried grouping by other fields with the same results.  If you click on
any header to change the sorting, the mode is changed to unthreaded.  This is
also the case if you use the menus (view -> sort by -> (date | sender | etc))
which isn't the case for bug 264941 which is a threading bug.
Blocks: 263571
I can't reproduce the original bug - what you're describing, where clicking on a
sort column does a flat sort, is the intended behaviour. There is an RFE bug
about  having an option to make that sort the groups, but that's already filed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Hmm, I can reproduce it with the current 0.9 release (20041103). 

Sort mails by date ascending. Now switch to "group by sort" und then click on
the column-head to sort by date descending. Now TB left the "group by sort" mode
and shows all messages without groups.
Markus, if after following your steps, the date column had a little triangle,
then this bug is works for me. Clicking a column header when in grouped mode
takes you out of grouped mode and leaves you in a flat sort, just like it does
if you're in threaded mode and click on a column header, by design.
Sorry, I didn't read your previous comment exactly. There you wrote that it's a
feature of TB to switch to flat mode if you click on a column-head.

But I search vor a solution to switch the order and stay in group mode.
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