79629 - Disable thread-specific menuitems if threadmode is off

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Håkan Waara]

If the user has threadmode off, so the threadpane is flat then we should disable
some thread-specific menuitems which automatically takes the user to threadmode.

Comment 1

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

some examples I see are:

Go | Next | Unread Thread
Mark | Thread As Read

I'm sure there are more.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

Actually, mark thread as read should work correctly (it worked in 4.x also) in
flat mode.

Comment 3

[laurel]

Go next unread thread should also work in a flat sort, I believe it currently
does basically work.

Comment 4

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

are there any thread specific menuitems that should be disabled, or is this bug
invalid?

(note: mark thread as read and go next thread work currently work in flat mode.)

Comment 5

[Håkan Waara]

Can someone motivate why doing thread-specific commands should work when the
threadmode is off?  That's gotta confuse the user.

Comment 6

[timeless]

motivate => explain

suppose you want to sort messages by something and you want to mark a bunch of
related messages as read, should you have to go back to the threaded view to do
it? [no]

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

WONTFIXing
Threads are still threads even when not in thread mode.  The commands work fine
and executing them doesn't switch mail into threaded mode (as described in
comment 0)