89372 - message with high priority not colored red

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Jean-Max Reymond]

In the message index window, message with high priority are not "red higlighted"
as in the version 0.9.1
Is it normal?

Comment 1

[WD]

Confirming 2001070404 WinMe

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

I believe coloring is removed intentionally.. whether that be a good thing is
another matter. See bug 81085.

Comment 3

[Håkan Waara]

Yeah, it's intentionally. It's only displayed in the Priority *column* if you
have that visible.

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 121223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[laurel]

Now we've removed all color for Priority, even in the column. This was done to
avoid clashing with the Label feature, which uses color highlighting and text.

Comment 6

[Luciano Giustini]

Laurel, I find that the only "Highest" word in the priority column doesn't
assure the importance viewing of the message. Moreover, if the user hasn't the
column at all, he will have no idea of the priority (and the related importance
gaved by the sender) itself. Then consider the majority of users use mail
program that have "priority" as set, and not labelling
I think Mozilla might use not to colouring messages, because the method is now
used by Labelling system, but put a small icon (i.e. and esclamation mark) near
to the title, when it has high or highest priority (note Outlook uses only
"high"). And it should be undeletable by user.
This is pretty viewable and is according with major mail client interfaces, that
uses to put a "!" near to high prioriry emails.
--luciano

Comment 7

[timeless]

1. can the reporter get what he wants w/ userChrome.css?
2. could we have a filter which set the label

Comment 8

[Michael Wardle]

As previously discussed here, we can't use colors because they conflict with the
new labeling mechanism.  Opened bug 124068 to investigate alternatives for
showing message priority that don't conflict with labeling.

Comment 9

[laurel]

This is invalid since we implemented labels -- no color coding specific to
priority anymore.