Closed Bug 1108599 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Move Down Arrow from the right to the left in the Composer's "From" value dropdown menu, similar to the "To" dropdown

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

31 Branch
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: Bill, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141106120505

Steps to reproduce:

Open TB


Actual results:

Ugh!


Expected results:

Hi TB,

It's not a bug, just a simple suggestion to make the TB experience better. Good Lord! What did you do? If you click on "From:" you are able to cycle through the available Identities. Great, but why did you stick the down arrow all the way on the right end of the From box where you don't see it? The down arrow should be on the LEFT where all the down arrows for the other elements are (To, Reply to, etc.).
Hi reporter, 
unfortunately this report is not very useful because it does not describe the problem well. If you have time and can still reproduce the problem, please read https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Bug_writing_guidelines and add a more useful description to this report by describing clear steps to reproduce, attaching a screenshot with the actual results, and the expected outcome.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(Bill)
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Hi Andre,

Thank you. Actually it's quite simple:
1. Open Thunderbird
2. Select Write (Compose a new message)
3. The first line in the Address Header for the new message is "From:"
4. "From:" has a drop-down menu, but you would never guess because for some strange reason the down arrow is stuck all the way to the right at the end of the line where you would never see it.
5. It makes a LOT more sense to locate the down arrow at the left where all the down arrows for the other elements in the Address Header are located.
Flags: needinfo?(Bill)
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Summary: Better User Interface → Move Down Arrow from the right to the left in the Composer's "From" value dropdown menu, similar to the "To" dropdown
Severity: normal → enhancement
Depends on: 1042780
OS: Windows 8.1 → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Dropdowns in general have the dropmarker to the right. If anything it would be the addressing type (To:, Cc:") that has it in the wrong place.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Depends on: 1115034
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