434042 - Need Undo for "Mark Folder Read"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[bgz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.14 (20080421)

I choose to use IMAP with frequent manual compaction by right clicking the IMAP Inbox in the left hand folder pane and selecting "Compact".

Since changing to to a Bluetooth mouse I have repeatedly accidentally selected the adjacent item "Mark Folder Read" instead (I have made this error perhaps 8 times so far - it appears to be due to some lag issue with the mouse movement relative to clicks). With close to 200MB of mail (over 2000 messages) on the server many of which I left in "unread" state to remind me that I still need to action them this is something I really don't want to be doing!

I would like the Edit - Undo menu option to be able to undo this "Mark All Read" operation - currently it does not offer to undo it.
Alternately I suppose the frequency of my error would be greatly reduced by adding a dividing line between "Compact" and "Mark All Read" in the pick list.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. For an Inbox with some mails marked as unread...
2. Right-click the Inbox in LH folder view and select "Mark All Read"
3. Select "Edit" from the main mail window and see that the "Undo..." option is not offering to undo the action in step 2.
Actual Results:  
Not possible to Undo this operation

Expected Results:  
Want to be able to undo this operation

Comment 1

[Ronald Killmer]

Shredder-a1 Win32
Looking at the Right Context menu of an account folder I see We should have a spacer element between the Compact and Mark items. These are two separate categories of actions, one is folder maintenance the other message management.

Nominating wanted Shredder-a2

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Pretty much bug 65775...

Comment 3

[Ronald Killmer]

(In reply to comment #0)

> Alternately I suppose the frequency of my error would be greatly reduced by
> adding a dividing line between "Compact" and "Mark All Read" in the pick list.

The OP has presented the separator as an alterative which is a low hanging fruit fix.  

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65775 should be where the Undo solution is patched.

Comment 4

[bgz]

I agree (sorry I didn't find the other reports when I searched).
Please consider this report as a request for the separator.
Let me know if there is any further action I should take (I am a novice at bugzilla)

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think the separator is wontfix.
The Compact and Mark Folder Read entries both operate on the messages in the folder, and are not in that way so different. Having only one entry between separators is not very common (for good reasons).