301704 - When switching between different locales the content out of mailViews.dat is not translated

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0+ nightly trunk builds

Thunderbird supports different "Views:" on top of the thread pane. The 5 default
views are given out of the file "mailViews.dat". In mailViews.dat is the fixed
locale relating (GUI)-text for these default views.

mailViews.dat is only one times copied into the profile, so when switching to an
other locale, you still have the old (false) locale for these (GUI)-text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use an en-US Thunderbird and create a new profile. Close Thunderbird.
2. Now use an localized Thunderbird, open the profile created in the step before.
3. Have a look into the "Views:" drop down menu on top of the thread pane.
Actual Results:  
You'll see the English entries (e.g.: "Has attachments") in the dropdown menu.

Expected Results:  
The default views should be shown in the actual used language.

Manually added views are stored in mailViews.dat, too. So it would be not a good
idea to overwrite the file, when changing the locale.

Maybe it would be possible to separate the default views from the manually added
views in future builds? So it would be possible to have 5 fixed default views
with localized GUI entities in a properties file, which could be used by
Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

mail views bugs seem to be filed against suite mail window component, so moving there

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

TB, not SM.

***

Alexander,

Thunderbird v1.0.x is not supported anymore.

Can you reproduce with Thunderbird v2.0.0.14 ?

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

Serge, do you _ever_ _read_ the comments in bugs before you triage them? I intentionally moved this to suite in comment #1. It's actually MailNews Core, though.