988286 - Closing a conversation with ESC causes it to break when reopened

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Conversation, defect)

Description

[Katelyn Gadd (:kael)]

If you close a conversation (I do this accidentally with IRC channels periodically), when you reopen it from the contact list, its tab has no title and the conversation backlog is hosed (font settings ignored, doesn't seem to update).

This worked in 1.4, IIRC.

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

I've certainly tried this recently and it works. Can you give us more information? Are there any errors in the error console?

What does "doesn't seem to update" mean? Do you mean previous messages don't show up or that new ones don't show up or what?

Comment 2

[Katelyn Gadd (:kael)]

I'll grab the contents of the error console next time it happens.

By 'doesn't seem to update' I mean that new messages in the channel don't seem to get added to the backlog. The old backlog appears.

Comment 3

[Katelyn Gadd (:kael)]

OK, when a conversation restore works I see a progress bar (as it restores the backlog), and when it fails I don't.

This appears in the error console for one of the conversations I tested:

Timestamp: 3/26/2014 20:08:51
Error: uncaught exception: Adding chat buddy demi twice?!

Comment 4

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.

Comment 5

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.