574141 - While defining search scope for a search folder, checking/unchecking a parent folder doesn't check/uncheck its child folders.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271249

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Ashley Harvey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 Firefox/3.6.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.5

Can be quite annoying if you have a large number of nested folders.
I think this happens elsewhere as well, not just when defining scope for a search folder.  If memory serves correctly, this also happens when defining to which folder(s) a rule/filter should be applied.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a search.
2. Save as a search folder.
3. Check/uncheck a parent folder.  Save.
4. Go to the search folder's properties, and look at the folders its applied to.
5. Expand one of them.
6. Note that even though you checked/unchecked the parent, the children were unaffected.
Actual Results:  
Subfolders don't inherit check/uncheck status from their parent.


I think the default behavior is backwards - that is, unintuitive.  I think the intuitive thing to do is have children inherit the status of their parent.  I think there should be an easy way however, to circumvent this behavior.
When this bug is fixed, I would also recommend a keyboard shortcut to reverse it.
IE, when displaying the "Select Folder(s)" dialog box, perhaps a note at the bottom of the dialog could say something along the lines of "Hold shift while checking/unchecking a folder to prevent subfolders from being affected".

But, erm, written in a more descriptive/clear way than that.