77940 - [SM] Search UI: Location column doesn't preserve shown/hidden state

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[laurel]

Using apr27 commercial trunk build
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/search/

Search UI spec states user settings in results pane should be remembered. I
assume that to apply to column display state as well as sort.

We do indeed have the columns' display state persist, except for the Location
column; it always comes back on new launch of the search messages dialog.

Steps:
1.  Launch to mail window, login to a mail account, select a folder.
2.  Search|Search Mail/News, initiate a simple search.  Note the default columns
present in the search results pane are : Subject, Sender, Date, Location.
3.  Use the column widget to uncheck/not display the Sender column.
4.  Close the search dialog then launch it again.  On re-launch the Sender
column is still not shown but the location column reappears.

Expected:  All columns should behave against the same persistence rule. Either
we preserve column configuration for all or none. I didn't expect Location to be
an exception.

Comment 1

[scottputterman]

moving to mozilla0.9.2

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

This regressed with my fix to the default columns, I believe.  In
SearchDialog.js, I call ShowSearchColumn("locationCol"); on the load of the
searchOnLoad() function, so everytime we open the window, this gets called. 
I'll see what I can come up with.  Sorry about this.

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

I hit a brick wall trying to come up with a fix for this, because although I can
set attributes (using Seth's functions), I don't know how to detect whether one
has been set already.  Navin, do you have any spare time to take a look at this?

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking.

it's going to be a generic problem with "location" column in search and the
"unread / counts" columns in the thread pane.

by default, "location" should be completely hidden in 3 pane, default in search,
but hideable in search.
by default, "unread / counts" should be hidden in 3 pane, but hideable in 3
pane, and completely hidden in search.

we aren't there yet, I'd have to do some changes to get that to happen.

the current situation isn't the best, but I could ship with it.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.3

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.4

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

slide to 0.9.5

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this would be nice UI polish.  moving out.

Comment 9

[Arun Prasannan (polar)]

This bug is being marked EXPIRED as it has seen no activity in a very long time.

If you think that the issue reported might still be relevant, please test with a recent release of SeaMonkey and if the problem persists feel free to re-open the report. Thank you.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Comment 10

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Bulk reopening incorrectly expired bugs - no activity does not constitute no bug - these need proper checking.

Comment 11

[Philip Chee]

Valid bug. => NEW