It is a good start indeed... thank for tackling it... I would suggest: - Make each icon bigger + less space between the icons (a bit like a taskbar/dock OS style) to ease identification, access and therefore navigation - A mouse over the icon could expand the column to the right to show text in addition of icon - so icon only when not moused over - icon+text when mouse over... some may not like it so you could have an option to disable this feature possibly... don't know... - Allow end-users to expand the column towards the right to show more icon maybe up to four on one line? A bit like Gimp tool panel... - Add horizontal line separation from top icons (belonging to TB core features) and others icons that may come from add-on, favorites, etc... possibly (long term) Some additional suggestions following open discussion here https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux/T6f0a27ad65e1fac5/proposal-implement-a-spaces-toolbar - Allow access to Settings - My suggestion: add **one** *Settings* button to access all Settings in TB - Settings Tab (or else way) as per separate discussion https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux/Tf01ae86e0bf67311/merging-all-tb-options-account-settings-add-on-settings-customise-settings-view-settings-into-one-settings-tab-view - Ability to Pin/Unpin the Space Bar - Making it available as a menu icon - Hamburger menu and Space Bar both allow navigation into TB so in fine could be merged into one (if you think about it) :-) - API for add-on developers which they can use to add their add-on icon/button to the Space Bar - So it need to be consider as part of the layout/theme and mock-up... to show more icons and see how it would look like... - Create consistency - open a new tab vs new window - Find a good balanced between default showed icons (most used) and those less used by end-users but still allowing them to access - Email, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Chat, etc... but in the future possibly Notes, Feeds, etc... - Allow collapse - manual and automatic (aka auto-hide) with a visual aide to easily show it back via click on a visible icon or mouse-over to the edge where panel is hidden... - Allow customisation - hide non-used icon - re-arrange order etc... a bit like toolbar icon customisation in Firefox - Allow relocation - left (by default? Probably make the most sense in a left-to-write reading mode), bottom, right, top - Integrate "Search" Button/View? - This may be rediscussed in a separate topic/bug on how to improve search and bring consistency to it all over TB I am conscious that all will not be dealt with in this bug (probably follow up once) but still worth mentioning to see the big picture from the start...
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It is a good start indeed... thank for tackling it... I would suggest: - Make each icon bigger + less space between the icons (a bit like a taskbar/dock OS style) to ease identification, access and therefore navigation - A mouse over the icon could expand the column to the right to show text in addition of icon - so icon only when not moused over - icon+text when mouse over... some may not like it so you could have an option to disable this feature possibly... don't know... - Allow end-users to expand the column towards the right to show more icon maybe up to four on one line? A bit like Gimp tool panel... - Add horizontal line separation from top icons (belonging to TB core features) and others icons that may come from add-on, favorites, etc... possibly (long term) Some additional suggestions following open discussion here https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux/T6f0a27ad65e1fac5/proposal-implement-a-spaces-toolbar - Allow access to Settings - My suggestion: add **one** *Settings* button to access all Settings in TB - Settings Tab (or else way) as per separate discussion https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux/Tf01ae86e0bf67311/merging-all-tb-options-account-settings-add-on-settings-customise-settings-view-settings-into-one-settings-tab-view - Ability to Pin/Unpin the Space Bar - Making it available as a menu icon - Hamburger menu and Space Bar both allow navigation into TB so in fine could be merged into one (if you think about it) :-) - API for add-on developers which they can use to add their add-on icon/button to the Space Bar - So it need to be consider as part of the layout/theme and mock-up... to show more icons and see how it would look like... - Create consistency - open a new tab vs new window - Find a good balanced between default showed icons (most used) and those less used by end-users but still allowing them to access - Email, Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, Chat, etc... but in the future possibly Notes, Feeds, etc... - Allow collapse - manual and automatic (aka auto-hide) with a visual aide to easily show it back via click on a visible icon or mouse-over to the edge where panel is hidden... - Allow customisation - hide non-used icon - re-arrange order etc... a bit like toolbar icon customisation in Firefox - Allow relocation - left (by default? Probably make the most sense in a left-to-write reading mode), bottom, right, top - Integrate "Search" Button/View? - This may be rediscussed in a separate topic/bug on how to improve search and bring consistency to it all over TB I am conscious that all will not be dealt with in this bug (probably follow up ones) but still worth mentioning to see the big picture from the start...