Closed Bug 472988 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

thread pane loses saved search's folder location column when switching tabs

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED
Thunderbird 3.0b2

People

(Reporter: wsmwk, Assigned: Bienvenu)

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081230 Shredder/3.0b2pre

thread pane loses saved search's location column when switching tabs, if last opened tab is a real folder

1. tab 1 is a saved search against multiple folders - it has a location column
2. right click any "real" folder and open in new tab
3. click back to tab 1

actual results: location column is gone for the saved search in tab 1

Workaround is open another saved search and the column comes back, but the behavior reflects poorly on tab UI.  

Reverse the order and no problem - the thread pane columns that stick are those of the last opened tab.  

Perhaps could be fixed by bug 259609, which I had marked wanted-thunderbird3? (because it seems simple, and useful). But the solution for the bug could be far simpler - just force location column every time one changes to a saved search tab.   (xref bug 374551, which is about manually *removing* location column)
Flags: wanted-thunderbird3?
bienvenu, do you think bug 259609 would really be required to accomplish this, and who might be able to handle this in TB3 time frame?
no, I don't think bug 259609 would be required at all - we just need to make the tab switching code a little smarter. If asuth hasn't fixed this already in one of his tab patches, I can fix this.
(In reply to comment #2)
> If asuth hasn't fixed this already in one of his tab patches, I can fix this.

asuth, FYI this wouldn't be so bad, except leaving and returning the saved search folder (the workaround) doesn't remember the last accessed message, which is painful
Summary: thread pane loses saved search's location column when switching tab s → thread pane loses saved search's folder location column when switching tabs
Yes, I am planning to address this as part of the gloda-search changes.  I'm going to try and clean up this whole area a bit more.  However, this is probably a week out; if bienvenu would like to provide a quick patch for b2, that's also fine.
Assignee: nobody → bugmail
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
I'll have a quick look
Attached patch proposed fixSplinter Review
Andrew, do you have time to look at this for b2? Otherwise, I can ping someone else for review. Basically, I moved some column updating calls into a shared method.
Assignee: bugmail → bienvenu
Attachment #362733 - Flags: review?
Attachment #362733 - Flags: review? → review?(bugmail)
Attachment #362733 - Flags: review?(bugmail) → review+
pushed http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/80da30e973b6
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Flags: wanted-thunderbird3?
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird 3.0b2
Depends on: 479045
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: x86 → All
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