1238162 - Icons have unknown meanings

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1277771

(Thunderbird :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[u328884]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.7) Gecko/20150929 Firefox/31.9 PaleMoon/25.7.2
Build ID: 20150929234510

Steps to reproduce:

Clicked "Help" | "Help Contents"


Actual results:

Help opened in Firefox, but help with the UI is not there. Specifically, the meanings of the various folder icons is unknown.


Expected results:

There should be documentation regarding TBird's UI. Specifically (but not exclusively), the meanings of the various folder icons should be presented.

Comment 1

[u328884]

The icons for some of my folders have turned from tiny folder images to tiny postage stamp images. After that's happened, I can no longer delete or rename the folder, even if it is empty. Why that is, is mysterious. It is very irritating. My folder panel is filling up with useless icons I can't delete.

Comment 2

[u328884]

Ah. I can't delete the folder if it is used as the destination of a filter. This really aught to be documented somewhere where 'Help' | 'Help Contents' points.

Comment 3

[u328884]

Correction.

"I can't delete the folder if it is used as the destination of a filter" is not true.

What is true is that a folder icon turns into a postage stamp icon when it is the destination of
'Account Settings' | '<name-of-account>' | 'Copies & Folders' | 'Other:'
Changing that Account Setting to a differring folder causes the postage stamp icon to move to the new 'Other:' folder. Whichever folder has the postage stamp icon cannot be deleted or renamed.
Well, that's pretty obscure and really aught to be documented.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I suspect it is not documented precisely because it is obscure, and most users don't need to know anything about it.
However the icon meanings are far from obscure - the meaning/purpose of the folder is conveyed by the picture.
And I suspect you really mean for this bug to document is why these folders cannot be manipulated by users.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, use Needinfo for questions) from comment #4)
> I suspect you really mean for this bug to document is why these folders
> cannot be manipulated by users.

Mark, Does this describe your concern?