When switching to 2-column landscape mode, current conversations are closed

[Tim Peeters]

messaging-app.qml has the following code:

        onColumnsChanged: {
            // we only have things to do here in case no thread is selected
            if (layout.columns == 2 && !application.findMessagingChild("emptyStatePage") && !application.findMessagingChild("fakeItem")) {
                layout.removePage(mainPage)
                emptyStack()
            }
        }

This causes the current conversation to be closed when the user rotates the phone (on a large-enough screen to go to two-column mode), and that can be very annoying. The APL can already take care of moving pages to the correct column and correct place in the stack when needed, so this code should be removed. Also note that emptyStack() will again call layout.removePage(mainPage).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gustavo Pichorim Boiko (boiko)]

After some discussion we decided not to use the bottom edge animation when in two columns mode, so this problem is not going to happen anymore.

At some point the SDK might need to have animated transitions in APL and PageStack, but that's out of scope for this bug, so I'll mark as Invalid for SDK.