302525 - deleting a message while sorted by descending order should select message above it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 349763

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Ed Voas]

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When you are sorted in normal ascending order and you delete a message, it 
basically selects the next message in the list. This is good, as it means you 
can just walk through your mail and hit delete and you'll be looking at the 
next message. But when you are sorted in descending order (I like to keep the 
most recent messages on top because I'm strange, apparently), the selection 
selects the next message *downward* instead of moving up one (Apple Mail does 
this right). I think the code must just always select the same cell in the 
list and when sorted ascending it just behaves well, but since I'm sorted 
backwards it doesn't quite do what I expect. This has to be the only thing 
that I honestly don't like about TB right now. Makes it somewhat frustrating 
to use.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Sort your mail by descending date
2. Delete a message

Actual Results:  
The message *below* the deleted message is selected.

Expected Results:  
The message *above* the deleted message should have been to allow one to 
easily process their unread mail, deleting as you go.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Seamonkey bug 185652.  Bug 19625 is a better solution; see bug 229220 comment 1.
It seems this is the first time this has been filed for Thunderbird, which is 
surprising.

Comment 2

[Kaspar]

Attachment: Patch to select proper message after delete when sorted by descending order

Indeed a major annoyance - which is why I'm proposing this patch. It's not a panacea (doesn't address all the issues in bug 19625 or bug 185652, nor those in RFE 65823), but fixes this particular bug. It only changes the behavior when messages are sorted by date in descending order and a single message is deleted. Build successfully tested with the Thunderbird 1.5RC2 source tree.

It would *really* be nice to see this issue fixed in Thunderbird 2.0 (bug 205898 might also be addressed then).

Comment 3

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** Bug 339317 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This has been fixed at the dupe, for TB 2.0 & 3.0.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 349763 ***