312610 - Folders in News/Blogs/RSS not consistently highlighted when they receive new messages

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Mark]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050914 Camino/1.0a1

Observed on both XP and Mac OS 10.4, using both Tb 1.0.7 and Tb 1.5b2:

I have a News&blogs (RSS) account setup on my version of Tb. I find that the
highlighting of new messages can be pretty inconsistent ie during an automatica
update, a folder might have found and downloaded new messages, but the title in
the folder pane does not turn blog, and the number of new messages is not
displayed. This situation, however, is remedied if I click on the folder to view
the messages (that I don't know are there ;-) - suddenly the folder title
becomes bold, and I get a number next to it telling me how many new messages I have.

Warning: reproducing it this bug can be a bit tricky at times.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add an RSS subscription that updates frequently (eg news.bbc.co.uk,
craigslist.org, news.google.com)
2. Set the News&Blogs account to update every frequently (eg every minute)
3. Mark any new messages in the test folder as read
4. Wait for several minutes (for some new messages to roll in)
5. Click on the test folder, to see whats in it
Actual Results:  
Test folder contains new messages, but the folder name is not highlighted in
bold, and does not display the number of new messages.

Expected Results:  
Folder name should be in bold, and should have the number of new messages next
to it, when new messages arrive.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

One simple and consistent way to see this symptom is to simply add a new 
subscription; the items are downloaded during the Add process, but the new 
folder is not bolded until it's clicked on.  (This is true even if the account's 
tree node is collapsed, and then expanded after the Add is complete.)  But I'm 
not sure if that's exactly the same problem.

Comment 2

[Mark]

(In reply to comment #1)
> But I'm not sure if that's exactly the same problem.

I'm not sure either. I had noticed this too, and it does seem to be very closely
related....

Comment 3

[Mark]

You might also want to look at Bug 260545, which sounds very much like mikes
symptoms.. (as yet, unresolved)

Comment 4

[Stuart Rogers]

Problem is not limited to News/Blogs/RSS feeds -- it occurs in regular mail folders, too. bug 383598, bug 420260.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

is this and Bug 260545 also seen in version 3?

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.