474864 - Clear command in Error Console should be able to clear messages selectively

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Error Console, enhancement)

Description

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090119 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090119 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre

As of now, the "Clear" command in the Error Console clears All messages in the dialog box no matter if the user wants to clear All or some of the messages. I suggest adding functionality where if the user is in a Display that shows only specific types of messages (Errors, Warnings, Messages) and presses the clear button, only the messages of those types should be removed from the list.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Tools | Error Console
2. Populate the list of messages to incorporate coverage over errors, warnings and messages.
3. Go to the Errors only display and press Clear.
4. Go back to the All display.
Actual Results:  
All messages will be cleared from the error console.

Expected Results:  
Only the messages of type "Error" should be cleared from the Error Console. The Warning and Message types should still remain in the console.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

See this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090122 Minefield/3.2a1pre. I do not think this was an issue in 1.9.0 branch, not sure.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

my mistake, not a regression, but still a bug. Clear should clear the visible pane, not all.

Comment 3

[Philip Chee]

> Clear should clear the visible pane, not all.

I disagree. By default "Clear" *should* clear all messages, otherwise it would have been called "Clear Some". But an enhancement to selectively clear messages sounds interesting. The question is, what is the use case for this?

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Clear is only going to clear the vied. that is what it implies. In my IMHO at least.

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

The original reporter wants to "specific types of messages (Errors, Warnings, Messages)". I was asking him what are his use cases (that is what problems is he trying to address). In the mean time he can either install the Console Filter extension <http://console2.mozdev.org/cf/index.html> and/or the Console² extension <http://console2.mozdev.org/index.html>.

Comment 6

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

imo, it just doesn't make a lot of sense to the user to have an ambiguous "Clear" button that clears all messages at the same time there are display panes that separate message types.

Comment 7

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

For a use, what if you just want to clear messages, bu see warnings and errors. Then you would go to messages, clear that view, then go to all to see the rest.

Comment 8

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

There's a dupe of this bug floating around somewhere, it all depends on bug 490181.

Comment 9

[David E. Ross]

After viewing Warnings -- with the Warnings button still selected -- I selected the Clear button.  I lost all Errors and Messages, which I had not yet viewed.  

The Clear button does NOT say "Clear All".  Thus, it should clear only those entries being viewed.

Comment 10

[Brian Grinstead [:bgrins]]

The Error Console has been removed in favor of the Browser Console (see Bug 1278368), and the component is going to be removed.  If this bug is also relevant in the Browser Console, please reopen and move this into Firefox -> Developer Tools: Console.

Comment 11

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

I am mass-reopening and re-componenting every single one of the Toolkit:Error Console bugs that appear to have been closed without anyone even *glancing* at whether they were relevant to the Browser Console.

If you want to close a whole bunch of old bugs -- FOR ANY REASON -- it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to check EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM and make sure they are no longer valid.  Do not push that work onto the bug reporters.

(It's okay to close bugs that haven't been touched in years when they don't have enough information for you to figure out whether the problem is still relevant to the current software - the reporter probably isn't coming back to clarify.  But that is the ONLY situation where it is okay.)

(I'm going to have to do this in two steps because of the way the "change several bugs at once" form works.  Apologies for the extra bugspam.)

Comment 12

[Brian Grinstead [:bgrins]]

The Error Console feature was removed entirely from the tree in Bug 1278368 and the bugzilla component is now being removed. We’ve migrated bugs that seem to also affect the Browser Console into the devtools component, please move this over if it was missed.