Closed Bangaio65 closed 7 months ago
This is surprising since the same code is present in TB 60 and on current "trunk", currently at version 123, also in 115:
We'd have to investigate why that doesn't work any more.
That said, we noticed that there are two prefs, mailnews.database.global.views.global.columns
and mailnews.database.global.views.conversation.columns
. Shouldn't the former be used? At a guess, the latter only applies to "conversation" type views, such as global search results.
Looking at this a bit more, those prefs only ever were for global search views, not for normal folders. The default column for regular folders were always hard-coded and never configurable:
It would be a big job to introduce configurability here.
Then I may be remembering wrong, but I recall using autoconfig to set that value so I didn't have to do it manually each time I installed Thunderbird for an user.
Would it be possible to inherit the value from the Inbox folder instead? I see something about that in folderDisplay.js
from 60.
I'm not an expert on autoconfig. From what I understand is that you can set prefs. Perhaps you're talking about the mail.threadpane.use_correspondents pref?
I've just tweaked the default column order in BB, it had to be done in code.
This worked until Thunderbird 60 by setting the preference
mailnews.database.global.views.conversation.columns
. It stopped working on TB68.See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627151