369749 - Parent folder font goes un-bold even when children folder(s) are bold with unread messages

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Michael Lueck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.9 (20061207)

On 08/02/2007 03:58, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Michael Lueck to generate the following:? :
> I think I today recreated what happened. I clicked somewhere between the [+] and the folder icon, and the bold was unbolded for that top level folder. I had no way of telling what mail was unread in folders under that folder, without expanding the tree view... and without being bold, why would I bother expanding it.
>
> The child folders indeed kept their bold status.
>
> Is that some design feature, or a real bug?
>
>   
I presume that - as the "top" folder contained no message, the status of the sub-folders is considered to be a message, reflected by the bold type!
As you clicked the "top" folder (which contains no message) it seemed to think that the sub-folder status has to be changed to "read"... this might mean that the sub-folder status (top folder marked in bold type) is interpreted *IN* that top folder, as being a message...  which would be a bug!

reg 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Child folder should have unread messages, possibly moved there by a filter
2. Have the parent folder closed, showing [+]
3. Click between the [+] and the folder icon. If you got "the magic spot" then it will go unbold, forever, even as more mail is filtered to a child folder.
Actual Results:  
No visual indication as to unread messages below that folder.

Expected Results:  
Should be impossible to have an unbold parent folder with bold children/grand children folder(s).

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

Have you tried 2.0? I believe I fixed a similar bug a while ago.

Comment 2

[Michael Lueck]

I have only just migrated to Thunderbird, after 11 years on my previous email client. I was thinking of holding off migrating more computers until 2.0 was released.

I suppose I can migrate to the 2.0 beta, then the release version. I located how to download 2.0 beta 2 - seems to be the latest available.

Thanks!
Michael

Comment 3

[Michael Lueck]

Attachment: Error text as result of upgrading to TBird 2b2

The upgrade to TBird 2b2 seems to indeed fix the folder logic bug. However, an undesirable feature of the upgrade is an ugly error at the bottom of the main TBird window. I have attached a .png of just the ugly part.

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does this issue still occur in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is now 2.0.0.17)

Comment 5

[Michael Lueck]

I had forgotten I logged this one.... hhhmmm, even before TB2 released!

Definitely not an issue with 2.0.0.17! We are using both official Windows and Linux (Ubuntuzilla) builds with success.

Yes, please close and mark resolved.

Comment 6

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Resolving WFM per comment #5.