1289696 - Ergonomy: placement of 'delete' button for threaded messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 844475

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Sciss]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160607223741

Steps to reproduce:

When receiving new messages, some are individual and some are threaded and by default collapsed. When skipping through the message list, I often want to delete messages one by one. This works for individual messages as the button positions (...Archive, Junk, Delete, More) remain consistent. However when entering a collapsed threaded message, the two buttons (Archive, Delete) are assigned different screen positions.T


Actual results:

The result is that one usually accidentally clicks 'Archive' on a threaded message when one actually wants to click 'Delete' because 'Archive' has obtained the screen position that 'Delete' has for individual messages.


Expected results:

It would improve ergonomy and predictability of UI a lot if the buttons 'Archive' and 'Delete' for a selected threaded message were aligned with these two buttons in individual message view.

Comment 1

[Sciss]

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Comment 2

[Sciss]

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Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

perhaps we should confirm bug 844475.
There is also bug 1066738