271179 - Grouped by Sort does not honor sort direction

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 267754

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Duncan Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I normally sort messages so that the most recent appear at the top (by date
descending). When I select Grouped By Sort the sort returns to Ascending and the
Icon in the title line changes. The menu option still shows descending. I would
rather that whatever option I had chosen remains and the messages within the
group appear accordingly.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. select sort by date, descending
2. select View, Sort By, Grouped by Sort
3. check it out

Actual Results:  
messages within the groups (eg Today) will appear in ascending order ie newest
at the bottom.

Expected Results:  
retained selected sort within the group ie newest messages at the top

Comment 1

[Chris]

Actually the sort order inside each group is the reverse of the original sort
order of all the messages. e.g. if you originally had the newest messages at the
bottom of the list, the newest messages are now at the top of the list in each
group.

Comment 2

[Chris]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Actually the sort order inside each group is the reverse of the original sort
> order of all the messages. e.g. if you originally had the newest messages at the
> bottom of the list, the newest messages are now at the top of the list in each
> group.

Whoops, I was wrong, it does always show the newest messages at the bottom.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263678 ***

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Duping this to the bug that actually had the fix for the problem -- but note that the fix regressed sometime, as 1.5.0.5 and 2a1/3a1 builds exhibit the problem.  See bug 340307.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 267754 ***