106711 - label column is showing up to the left of subject by default

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P2)

Description

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label column is showing up to the left of subject by default for existing profiles.

is that column something we'll want hidden by default?

Comment 1

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here's probably what's happening, I haven't debugged yet.

to achieve column reordering, hewitt added the ordinal attribute.

an existing user will probably have persisted ordinal values on their columns.

my guess, the new column shows up with ordinal value 0 (or MAX), so it is on 
the far left.

ideally, any new column would show up on the far right.

my guess is that the fix for this could be a change to outliner.xml.

Comment 2

[Håkan Waara]

I would prefer to have this hidden by default.

Comment 3

[jglick]

http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/labels/

Spec states Label column does not show up by default (see Issues section).

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

The spec currently says it's hidden by default which I agree with.  It would
also be great if it were possible to move it more to the right. It sounds like
we have to figure out if that's possible.  Putting in 0.9.7 but wouldn't be
against it making 0.9.6

Comment 5

[jglick]

Default location: how about between flag and priority since that is sort of what 
the feature is (or in that general area).

Comment 6

[Sean Su]

looks like there are two problems here:
1) default location of the Labels column
2) default hidden attribute.

#2 will get fixed with the patch to bug 81292.

Let me know where people would like #1 to be.

Comment 7

[Sean Su]

*** Bug 107663 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Sean Su]

Attachment: patch to move labels column to be between the flag and priority columns

Comment 9

[varada]

Comment on attachment 61133 [details] [diff] [review]
patch to move labels column to be between the flag and priority columns

r=varada

Comment 10

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this patch seems fine, sr=sspitzer

this patch just makes it so that on new profiles, the label column is in the
right place, right?  this doesn't affect for existing profiles, which have
ordinal values defined for all the columns, which will make labels show up as
the left most column, right?

I think we really want to hide that column for new / existing profiles, but that
is a seperate bug.

Comment 11

[Sean Su]

patch checked in.

Comment 12

[laurel]

Default placement is not on the left.
OK using dec13 commercial trunk build: win98, linux rh6.2 and mac OS X