341354 - Can't add tags to multiple messages at a time

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Antti Kaihola]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fi; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/thunderbird-3.0a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

When selecting multiple messages and selecting a tag in the context menu, one would expect the tag to be added to all selected messages. It's only applied to the active message (framed with dotted lines) instead.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a folder with more than one message
2. select multiple messages (ctrl-click, shift-click, ctrl-space/up/down or shift-up/down)
3. right-click on one of the selected messages
4. select "Tag"
5. select one of the tags

Actual Results:  
The tag is added only to the active message (framed with dotted lines).

Expected Results:  
The tag should be added to all selected messages.

Comment 1

[u63580]

TB version 2 alpha 1 (20060611)

"Tag"? Do you mean "Label" - if so WFM

Comment 2

[Karsten Düsterloh]

No, that's trunk, see bug 114656.
The problem as such is known, see source code comments for (Un)TagCurMessage in mailWindowOverlay.js.

The problem occurs in SeaMonkey also.

Comment 3

[Karsten Düsterloh]

*** Bug 342069 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

I can code this up...

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

this also copies SM's cleaner code for setting up the context menu.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

fixed for 2.0 as well

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 346731 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

verified fixed1.8.1.3 with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 ID:2007032620 (Thunderbird 2 Rc1), Tags for multiple messages works fine.