573695 - missing config: "View > Sort By > all" in all-thunderbird.js (pref("mail.ui.folderpane.view", 0);)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[uwefelix]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; de) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.53
Build Identifier: Tunderbird/3.0.5

when you change the number in the defaults/all-thunderbird.js/pref("mail.ui.folderpane.view", X); can you configure all other "sort by" views but the config "0" (all) didn't work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Edit in "c:\Programme\Mozilla Thunderbird\defaults\pref\all-thunderbird.js the string pref("mail.ui.folderpane.view", 0); --> -1= group; 0= all; 1= unread; 2= favorites; 3= last; and save
2. delete your or create a new -Profile and Start Thunderbird
3. click abort or create an account and you can see in "View > Sort By" you can configure everything except "all"
Actual Results:  
You can configure the "View > Sort By" options except "all"

Expected Results:  
with the configuration "pref("mail.ui.folderpane.view", 0);" is used instead of "[Object][object]", "View > Sort By > all" configure

I use Thunderbird in the Standard Configuration and Theme no other plugins and so one

Comment 1

[uwefelix]

I used the German Version

Comment 2

[rsx11m]

Right-click into the main toolbar and select "Customize" to open the palette.
There should be a menu providing the different views, this is independent from the thread-list sorting criteria in the "View" menu you are listing above.

> mail.ui.folderpane.view

It appears that this preference does no longer exists (bug 414038). If you are talking about the "Smart Folders" vs. "All Folders" view, this is changed with the arrows in the folder-pane heading.

Comment 3

[rsx11m]

I have received a private e-mail from uwefelix confirming that indeed he is talking about the "All Folders" view. The issue is that he wants to have this mode automatically set for migrating and new profiles/accounts on all 200 computers he is maintaining.

Blake or David: With the lack of that preference, what is a possible way to set gFolderTreeView.mode to "All Folders" by modifying an existing profile or the default profile. Would it be sufficient to write a folderTree.json file with {"all": [accounts]} or something like that?

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

3.1 defaults to view | folders | all, so I believe he can just use 3.1

Comment 5

[rsx11m]

Good to know. Uwe, can you try TB 3.1 which is scheduled for release today?
And, please report any results here rather than by private e-mail. Thanks.

It may still be a problem though to change back any 3.0 profiles which were already migrated and thus have the Smart Folders mode by default...

Comment 6

[uwefelix]

OK when dose TB 3.1 released? and sorry for the Private mail

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

(In reply to comment #6)
> OK when dose TB 3.1 released? and sorry for the Private mail

Today.

Comment 8

[rsx11m]

No problem, servers are currently filling up...

Comment 9

[uwefelix]

The default is "all", no problems today with tunderbird 3.1 and I say Thank you

"pref("mail.ui.folderpane.view", 0);" is now "all" but I think you don't mean this type of Configuration

pleas explain what you mean and what dose "to write a folderTree.json file with
{"all": [accounts]} or something like that?" mean 

now you can't configure with "pref("mail.ui.folderpane.view", X);" the view "Group" but for me is that OK.

Comment 10

[rsx11m]

(In reply to comment #9)
> The default is "all", no problems today with tunderbird 3.1 and I say Thank you

Glad to hear that it works!

> "pref("mail.ui.folderpane.view", 0);" is now "all" but I think you don't mean
> this type of Configuration

This preference setting shouldn't make any difference in the 3.x versions.

> pleas explain what you mean and what dose "to write a folderTree.json file with
> {"all": [accounts]} or something like that?" mean 

This would have been my fallback suggestion if the 3.1 default behavior didn't work; it's the file where the folder-view settings are kept now, replacing that preference. You didn't say how many profiles you had already migrated to 3.0 before, thus the option there is to either try to modify those files in a batch or simply to let those users switch back to "All Folders" manually.

Comment 11

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

wfm per reporter's comment 9