96979 - Hide Total and Unread Folder count columns by default for existing profiles

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[scottputterman]

I downloaded 8/24's build and got to see the new folder pane for the first time.
 It's nice to have the option to show the folder count columns but it really
destroys the folder pane.  I created a new profile to see what the defaults are
and it's very hard to use.

The new profile only showed the first two letters of my account name and when it
discovered folders it only showed the folder icon and no letters in any of the
folder names.  This is a really bad user experience.  I would suggest either
hiding the folder count columns by default or making the folder sidebar much
wider by default.

Comment 1

[jglick]

From bug: 54171

>------- Additional Comments From [e-mail] 2001-08-15 15:16 -------
>
>Using 2001081504 build. Total and Unread columns are being shown by default.
>Would like to see them hidden by default (show only the name column)to avoid
>confusing novic users who don't know how to make them go away.

>Shall I file a separate bug for this?
>
>
>------- Additional Comments From Seth Spitzer 2001-08-15 15:29 -------
>
>those columns are hidden by default for a new profile.
>
>(they are for mozilla, and will be for ns as soon as I update the commercial
>version of localstore.rdf)

Bugscape 8923 is a dup of this bug.

Can we make the Total and Unread columns off by default even for existing 
profiles?

Comment 2

[jglick]

I think its important that we turn off Total and Unread columns by default even 
for existing profiles. As folks are getting new builds, i've gotten several 
comments about these columns being overwhelming.

Comment 3

[Håkan Waara]

I agree. And this bug is in fact a duplicate...

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbranch so the default behavior mirrors 6.1 behavior. Additional
comments in Bugscape # 8923.

Comment 5

[lchiang]

Can we consider to fix this for nsbranch?  (hopefully, will get approval).  I've
gotten a few "what is this in my folder pane and how do I fix it" questions so
it's a common source of confusion.

Thanks

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

plussing.

Comment 7

[kmurray1115]

I agree. It looks like this is finally the bug (after the DUPs and such) that
this can happen. I think mscott's original plan was to wait for the branch for
this anyhow.

mscott?

Comment 8

[kmurray1115]

Really adding the plus for mscott.

Comment 9

[Scott MacGregor]

Kevin, did you intentionally mean to take away my nsBranch+ and .9.5 status or
was that by accident =)? 

[e-mail] changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Keywords|nsbranch+                   |nsbranch
   Target Milestone|mozilla0.9.5                |---

Comment 10

[kmurray1115]

The streams were crossed. :-) My bad - although I knew you wouldn't be too mad
at me.

Comment 11

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

I agree, this is bad.  I'm working on a generic way to fix localstore.rdf items 
(persisted items) to existing profiles, as I'm sure this will come up again.

Comment 12

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

the plan will be to disable them for existing profiles

Comment 13

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

Attachment: screen shot of the problem with existing profiles

Comment 14

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

testing a potential fix now.  it would have been better if I would have fixed 
this when I landed the folder pane / rdfliner branch.

my fix will benefit users who are currently running builds without the 
folderpane outliner.  once they switch to a build with the outliner, they'd get 
my fix.

my fix will hurt any existing users who are running builds since the folder 
pane rdfliner branch landed, and who have *not* hidden the unread and total 
columns. (my fix is going to hide those columns once, using a folder pane 
version pref.)

I landed the folder pane outliner on 2001-08-14, so that mean anyone who has 
used a build since then and didn't hide those columns when they first appeared 
would be hurt.  but that window is small enough for me.

Comment 15

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

Attachment: patch

Comment 16

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

Attachment: patch

Comment 17

[Scott MacGregor]

Comment on attachment 50309 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

r=mscott

Comment 18

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

this has sr=bienvenu

Comment 19

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

check it in - PDT+

Comment 20

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

fixed on both branch and trunk.

to verify:  

1) create a new profile with a build prior to 8-14, set up mail, exit.
2) launch a build from yesterday, and you'll see the the unread and total 
columns.

do #1 and #2 again, but this time use a build with this fix.  you won't see the 
unread and total columns after upgrading.

Comment 21

[Ninoschka Baca]

Branch build 2001-09-24-03: WinMe, fixed.
Branch build 2001-09-24-04: Linux RH 7.1, fixed.
Branch build 2001-09-24-05: Mac 9.1, fixed.

Adding "vtrunk" to keywords so that it is also checked on a trunk build.

Comment 22

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2001-11-19: Linux RH 7.1
Verified Fixed.