379158 - Account Settings not saving account tree collapse state on OK

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Moobi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

When I collapse one, many, or all of the account trees in the Account Settings pane, click OK, then re-open the AS pane, all account trees are expanded.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. With the Account Settings pane open, collapse all of the account setting category trees.
2. Click OK.
3. Re-open the Account Settings pane.
Actual Results:  
All account setting category trees are expanded which makes it a long scrolling process to find a particular account.

Expected Results:  
Account trees appear in whichever one of the expanded or collapsed states that the pane was previously OK'd with.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

true. but, at what number of accounts does this become more than a minor issue? 15? 20?

Comment 2

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

For smaller numbers of accounts we want it to behave exactly like this however I can see that for larger numbers of accounts like wayne mentions this could be annoying.  I can't getting this fixed properly anytime soon, if you have a solution that you think could work I'd encourage you to try it.  I'm more than willing to help out with a solution for this but wontfix'ing right now because it just can't become a priority over other things.