459250 - Message focus (highlight) does not move to the current message being acted upon

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Ken Saunders]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081009 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b1pre

In Thunderbird (Inbox view) the focus or highlight stays on the last selected message instead of moving to the current message that is being acted upon. The example that brought me here is after I had clicked on a message (giving it focus) I then took action on the message below that one by marking it as junk by clicking on the bullet next to the message in the junk status column. The message is marked properly by placing the junk status icon next to the message but the actual highlight stays on the last selected message.

In my opinion, whatever action is being made to any message, the focus or the highlight should be directly on the one that is being worked on, otherwise a user may think that they just marked a message as junk despite the fact that the junk icon is put into the proper place.
Screen Shot
http://www.accessfirefox.org/KS_Cell/Tbird_Focus_Bug/Shredder_Active_Message_Screen_Shot.png

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select a message by simply clicking on it (single click).
2.Mark any OTHER message as junk by clicking on the bullet next to the message in the junk status column (not by using the Junk toolbar button).
3.
Actual Results:  
The message that you marked as junk will be marked as junk properly but the visual highlight will remain on the last selected message.

Expected Results:  
The message that is being acted upon should take focus and be highlighted

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away, back Aug 4)]

IMO this is as designed, and it would be pretty annoying if it would shift focus. Especially for junk, it's useful to just mark messages as junk (by looking at the header) without having to see the spam content.

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Based on comment #1 this bug is Invalid because the behaviour is deliberate.

Feel free to reopen it if I'm wrong.