531319 - 'show in conversation' is not available / doesn't work when mail opened in standalone message window

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Philipp A. Hechter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009102815 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.15
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091121 Thunderbird/3.0

When opening a mail in a new window instead of in a tab, the "other actions"/"show conversations"-button has no effect.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on a message in the message list and choose "Open in New Window"
2. Click the "other actions" button and choose "show in conversation"
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
The window is divided horizontally. The top part shows the conversation-thread as a list.

If the message is opened in a tab (default action), this function works as expected.

Comment 1

[Nathan Tuggy (:tuggyne)]

Confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091121 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0 (ID:20091121183158)

Additional note on expected results: I believe the expected results should be something more like "A new tab opens in the current window with message and preview panes, the message pane showing the conversation's thread."

Comment 2

[John Wilcock]

Confirmed here too. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fr; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091121 Thunderbird/3.0 ID:20091121183158.

Re comment#1, I don't see why a new tab would be wanted. Displaying the message list pane in the existing tab would seem more logical to me.

Comment 3

[Nathan Tuggy (:tuggyne)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Re comment#1, I don't see why a new tab would be wanted. Displaying the message
> list pane in the existing tab would seem more logical to me.
It might, but the current behavior when opened in a tab or when viewed in the default always-open tab is to open a new tab with the behavior I described.

Therefore, that's what I would *expect*, though not perhaps what would be most *desirable* -- though in my case I would slightly prefer that Show in Conversation open a new tab.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

standard8, can you transfer the wanted 3.1 to 3.3?

standard8 on irc "fixing this would probably depend on some of the tab stuff we're thinking about"

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I rarely use standalone message window, but when I do, I find it particuarly egregious that open message in conversation is not available. Only open message in containing folder is available

Comment 7

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

While "Open Message in Conversation" in a standalone window is now actually available in 115, it still fails if no other 3pane is open. The following patch should fix that.

Comment 8

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

Attachment: Bug 531319 - Fix opening a message in conversation from a standalone window. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

This opens a new 3pane window if necessary, when a message displayed in a standalone window is
to be shown in a conversation.

Comment 9

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/76ace2e9148c
Fix opening a message in conversation from a standalone window. r=vineet