544184 - Message headers should be displayed in standard order

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, enhancement)

Description

[mad.engineer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1

Currently, TB 3.0.1 shows the headers while reading/displaying the message in the following order:

from:
subject:
to:
cc:
tags:
...


This should be instead as follows:

from:
to:
cc:
subject:
tags:
...
...


Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Current header order is:

from:
subject:
to:
cc:
tags:
...


Expected Results:  
it should be instead in this order:

from:
to:
cc:
subject:
tags:
...
...


See attached screen shots for details

Comment 1

[mad.engineer]

Attachment: This is current order of header display

Comment 2

[mad.engineer]

Attachment: This is the way other clients display the same and it should be like this

Comment 3

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

This could be resolved with some kind of custom header editor such that people could get any order they like.  However changing the header order around causes huge stirs in our community of users so we would need excellent proof that this is the correct change to make.  The only way to make this kind of change happen is to create an extension which has the correct order, then we can get larger testing from the Thunderbird audience and make a choice.  This is the same path the Thunderbird development team is taking for similar efforts.

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