316736 - shortcut needed for 'Go To Next Unread Thread' without marking the thread's messages as read.

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Komka Peter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.7 (20050923)

'Go To Next Unread Thread' should not necessarily mark the thread's messages as read. (It does so!)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Use 'Go To Next Unread Thread' ('T')

Actual Results:  
Also marks allthe messages (in that tread) read!

Expected Results:  
Do not mark them read.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

that's the way next unread thread has always worked, the way it's designed to work, and the way other mail/news readers work.

Comment 2

[Komka Peter]

..Then add a menü line/shortcut (or any facility):
'Go to next thread without marking read'

(Why *constrain* the user to "once you started with a thread, then you must finish it"?.. I do not see the point.)

Or/and (at least): add a way to mark the thread as unread.
(E.g.: as the plain 'R' toggles a single message's 'Read-state', so could some 'Shift-M' [or anything] toggle the thread's 'Read-state'.)
(Or, when in a tree (and the line is a collapsed thread), the 'M' could toggle the subtree's 'Read'-state.)

Comment 3

[Ray Booysen]

Sounds like the work of an extension to me.
Marking as an enhancement though.

Comment 4

[[:Aleksej]]

Happens here in TB 1.5rc2.
Marks read the messages it passes by on the way to the next thread. If the thread is collapsed, it doesn't happen.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

A similar request is made in bug 749036. 

GIven that developer comment 1 indicates that T is working as designed, I'm mophing and confirming this bug summary to the need for a new keystroke of "Go to next thread without marking messages as read. And morphing bug 749036 to fixing the wording of T in the menu.