270069 - message counts in statusbar aren't consistently updated for virtual folders

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marcia mentioned having problems with how the message count is displayed in the
status bar for virtual folders. I also see this problem, and I think it might be
limited to virtual folders which search a single folder (but not across multiple
folders).

tested with 2004111505-0.9 on linux fc2; marcia saw this on the mac.

I can demonstrate this with some folders I've got on an IMAP account. to keep it
simple, I just keep the View set to All and have nothing set in the Quicksearch
field.

a. "bugscrubinfo" folder statusbar: Unread: 0, Total: 49 noted on the right
side. nothing noted on the left side. this is just a regular, user-defined IMAP
folder.

b. "bugscrubinfo-Later", a virtual folder based on searching for messages in my
"bugscrubinfo" folder: left side says "5 matches found" and right side has
Unread: 0, Total 49. the 5 matches is correct, but the 49 messages refers to the
count of the "bugscrubinfo" folder, not this one.

c. "multipack", a virtual folder based on searching *two* of my regular IMAP
folders: like (a), nothing noted on left side; right side of statusbar says
Unread: 0, Total: 11. this is correct, as there are 11 messages resulting from
the multi-folder search.

so, of (a), (b) and (c), folder (b) displays incorrectly, or at least misleadingly.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

another interesting observation, based on the folders I've got in comment 0:

1. click on (b) --note that it says "5 matches found" on the right side of the
statusbar.

2. click on any other folder *which you have already viewed during the same
tbird session*

results: while the right side of the statusbar (Unread, Total) updates
correctly, the left side still displays "5 matches found"

workaround: clicking on a folder you haven't viewed yet during the same session
somehow clears the left side statusbar content.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This makes virtual folders unfriendly to use. We should try to get this fixed
for 1.0

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Setting TM to 1.0 for consideration.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

David can you think of an easy way to fix this? This is only an issue for single
folder virtual folders. It happens because we are really just doing a quick
search on your real underlying folder so you see those message counts. Maybe we
could fake the unread/read total notifications in onSearchComplete in searchBar.js. 

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

definitely - I'll look at it...

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

use gSelectedFolder instead of msgWindow.openFolder.

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

fixed trunk and branch (need to fix in seamonkey as well)

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

David, thanks for fixing this! vrfy'd fixed with 2004120106-0.9 on linux fc2.