bring over mscott's thread pane "view" code from ns, to mozilla. we should find any bugscape bugs on the feature, and bring them over to bugzilla, too. note, we might not be able to turn it on fully, until we've finished all the filter changes. I'll elaborate on that in this bug, and the meta bug I'll log about when we can fork rules.dat (if that bug doesn't already exist)

taking.

good news, I've open sourced mscott's work. it's not on by default yet, since we are frozen for 1.2 final it will be on by default (At least for windows and linux) in 1.3 alpha

could you explain what this change is all about?

Oh, it's a virtual/search folders type thing. Nice!

firstly, thanks a lot for this feature! secondly, I now applied the patch and built it, and it has a small problem... (well, maybe it's designed like this...): I usually have mozilla set up to only show unread mail (view|messages|unread). now, if I have that option set, and click "All" in the new dropdown list, I still don't get all messages, but only the unread ones. would be great if this would show all.

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for mike lee (and others) a screen shot of how you customize views. it's the advanced search UI.

I just noticed that it's not possible to show mails/newsgroup postings threaded... this would be so much more useful if that was possible. also, I wish that the view would reset to "All" when I switched from Mail to News; although if threaded display mode were possible, this would not be so much of a problem.

Looks great, but can it be used in usenet also? 'Recent' filter would be especially useful in newsgroups. Also thread view when filtered would be great.

henrik asks: > are views cross folders? No, single folder. That idea (virtual folders) is still an open RFE. Cross folders would be doable, as would cross accounts, but the latter would take more work. Here's something I've been doing, to simulate virtual folders. 1) disable my filters a) if sender contains bugzilla, then ... b) uf subject contains "adv: ", then .. 2) create three custom views instead: a) sender contains bugzilla b) subject contains "adv: " c) and sender doesn't contain bugzilla and subject does not contain "adv: ". 3) view my inbox in mode (c). instead of switching folders, I just switch views.

>Looks great, but can it be used in usenet also? 'Recent' filter would be especially useful in newsgroups. yes, works in news. but right now you can't thread when you are in a view mode.

known bug: after using the customize view, the view picker says "customize..." instead of what it was before. (might only be if you do customize and then hit cancel)

Seth, do you want to only check this in for 1.2 as an extension that doesn't touch other code?

> Seth, do you want to only check this in for 1.2 as an extension that doesn't > touch other code? I wanted to know if drivers wanted it for 1.2 final, but I should wait for 1.3 alpha. there's some issues, we need to wait for rules.dat to fork (bug owned by naving) and I still need to do the mac project work.

Yeah, let's wait for 1.3a.

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Talked with Seth. Laurel, pls bring the open bugs on this feature from bugscape over to bugzilla now that the code is open sourced. Thanks.

turned on for windows and linux, mac coming soon.

fixed, on all platforms. also, I forgot to package up mailViews.dat, so that meant today's builds didn't have a default mailViews.dat, but tomorrow's will.

Something missing from the installer build? The feature is not visible in installer build trunk-2002110808 on WinXP, but the zip package works.

Doesn't work in yesterdays nightly on Mac either. I had to manually add content,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/messenger.jar!/content/messenger-views/ to installed-chrome.txt. My own trunk build works fine.

Hmm, adding that line to installed-chrome.txt still doesn't allow my custom views to show up in the list of mail views in an rpm build. Something is still missing.

Still have the problem of no MailViews showing up (evein with added line) in latest builds -- 2002111404 (Both ZIP & SEA Build tested).

Correction: I overwrote the SEA build dir with the ZIP build ... After deleting install dir and unzipping, MailViews are back ... current ZIP build works (on clean install, :) )

This still doesn't work in Mac nightlies, have to manually add the line to installed-chrome.txt every time.

Anyone else have the problem that their ADVANCED button wen taway (allows Search Messages) ... This only happens once you get the VIEW button back up ..

ok, I just double checked that today's trunk linux bits (mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz) are ok. peterv says mac is hosed, looking into that now...

ruh-ruh, three mailnews related lines appear to missing from the official mac installed-chrome.txt file > content,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/messenger.jar!/content/messenger-mdn/ > content,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/messenger.jar!/content/messenger-views/ > locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/messenger-mdn/ working it...

Bug 183755 might be the same issue...

looks like I forgot to add lines to the per platform mail.jst files (I'll double check with ssu) not sure why it works for win32 / linux, though. working on it...

sure enough, some of these .jst changes were in the ns tree, which is why people behind the firewall weren't seeing it (on linux / win32)

I think we want this for 1.3a, I'll go seek reviews...

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Comment on attachment 108417 [details] [diff] [review] jst file cleanup sr=bienvenu

Comment on attachment 108417 [details] [diff] [review] jst file cleanup seeking approval.

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fixed. but the proof is in the pudding, when tomorrow's bits come out.

Works for my Mac nightlies now.

Great, also works in Windows installer build now.

I just tested today's mozilla mac and linux bits, they seem ok too.

marking verified OK using dec23 commercial trunk: win98, linux rh8.0, mac OS 10.2 Generally in an functional Any further, specific issues for this views feature should be logged separately.