267845 - folder with enabled 'grouped by sort' forgets opened branches e.g. yesterday; on folder reopen tree is always collapsed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Max Moldmann]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: version 0.9 (20041103)

IMAP account
this is annoying especially in the INBOX

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.select folder
2.activate grouped by sort
3.open a tree branch
4.switch to other folder and back


Actual Results:  
you should see a fully collapsed tree

Expected Results:  
the tree should remember the previously opened branches

Comment 1

[Mike Fedyk]

Confirmed on win2k with TB 0.9

At least it remembers the last message you had open...

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Threaded views don't remember individually opened threads, either.

However, if you use  View|Threads|Expand All  on a threaded view, that setting 
is remembered.  For a Grouped view,  Expand All  does the right thing but 
doesn't stick.

Comment 3

[Ger Teunis]

Opened 'grouped by sort's are closed when thunderbird is restarted.
(thunderbird doesn't remember the opened state of 'grouped by sort') will this
bug cover this as well?

Comment 4

[u88484]

same as problem as comment 3

version 0.9+ (20041110)

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This makes group by sort very unfriendly. Can we get this fixed for 1.0?

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

if you tell us to remember the last opened message we open the branch and select
the correct message making this bug not very severe. minusing for 1.0

Comment 7

[Lucian Fratila]

It's not about the last opened message, but the look of the tree.  After using
the group sort for a while, I'm pretty much inclined to give up using it because
every time I switch to a different folder, all the unselected threads collapse.
 Basically, every time you want to come back to a folder you've recently
visited, only the thread which had a message selected is kept open - all others
lose their old state.

To recap: if you have, say, grouping by date with 5 groups (today, yesterday,
last week, two weeks ago and old mail), open the first 4 of them, then select a
message at random, then switch to a different folder and back to the first one,
you'll find all folders collapsed apart from the one with the last selected
message (which is opened, and that message is selected).

I believe the open/collapsed state should be kept when leaving a folder; the
fact that the last selection is kept is excellent, but not enough IMHO.  I use
to keep both today & yesterday opened (so that I can always see most recent
mails) and find it very annoying to have to reopen the folders each and every
time I return to the folder.

1.0+ please?

Comment 8

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

remember which group by date groups are expanded (and only group by date). One
caveat, this won't remember groups that are empty; e.g., if you delete all of
yesterday's messages and then open the folder the next day, we won't expand
yesterday, even if it was expanded when you deleted the last message in it...

Comment 9

[David :Bienvenu]

Comment on attachment 166959 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix

just store each date group bucket as a bit in an int we write to the db...

Comment 10

[Lucian Fratila]

Excellent, it seems it's working perfectly (20041125).

Thank you David!

Comment 11

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 268979 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Mark Cooke]

*** Bug 271627 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[marcel]

I'm seeing this again with TB 45.