141089 - [RFE] Titlebar should show account name instead of email address

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Bamm Gabriana]

Most people remember their accounts by the account name they gave
it rather than the server used. This change may be trivial but it
makes the MailNews client look less geeky.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 154569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Bamm Gabriana]

Showing the Account Name makes it look more professional.

Comment 3

[J Luh]

*** Bug 168285 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[J Luh]

This appears to be fixed. I had the same problem in Mozilla 1.1, but with build
2002092511 on Mac OS X, the account name shows up in the window title instead of
the server address.

Comment 5

[Bamm Gabriana]

Nope. Using today's build 2002092617, clicking on Inbox, titlebar still says
"Inbox for [e-mail] - Mozilla" instead of "Inbox for Home Mail -
Mozilla".

Comment 6

[Jay Smith]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202
Red Hat Linux 8

This situation is still present.

I have multiple accounts, both for the same email address of [e-mail] 
-- and that is what the title bar shows: [e-mail]. This would not be so
bad if my accounts were for other email addresses. But since it is the same
address, it is _easy_ to get confused about which account I am in.

(I use multiple accounts because I need to use different signature files, and
sometimes log into different IMAP systems, etc.)

Comment 7

[Errol Smith]

WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040217

Comment 8

[Errol Smith]

I may have misspoke.. The bug is _partially_ fixed, looking at Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217.

If you click on the "root" of an account (the part with the drop down arrow next
to it), it gives the account name in the title bar, eg. "home mail - Mozilla"
(this is the desired behaviour).

But if you click on any of the mail boxes within that account (Inbox, Trash
etc.), it then shows the email address, eg. "Inbox for [e-mail] - Mozilla"
(or sometimes the subject and email address if a message is selected, eg. "This
is a subject line - [e-mail] - Mozilla").

So it's inconsistent as well as looking geeky and unprofessional. :)

Comment 9

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Attachment: Show account name in the title bar

The patch shows the account name instead of the mail address and we also get some faster code.

Comment 10

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 313869 [details] [diff] [review]
Show account name in the title bar

>         if (server.type == "nntp") {
>           // <folder> on <hostname>
>           middle = gMessengerBundle.getString("titleNewsPreHost");
>           end = server.hostName;
>         } else {
>+            // <folder> for <accountname>
>             middle = gMessengerBundle.getString("titleMailPreHost");
>+            end = server.prettyName;
>         }
>         if (middle) title += " " + middle;
>         if (end) title += " " + end;
This is a -w diff really right? ;-)

Comment 11

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Attachment: Show account name in the title bar v2

(In reply to comment #10)
> This is a -w diff really right? ;-)

Not exactly *cough* ;-)

Now the patch has a correct indentation.

Comment 12

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Comment on attachment 313937 [details] [diff] [review]
Show account name in the title bar v2

Yeah, that's much more sensible this way.

Comment 13

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Checking in mailnews/base/resources/content/commandglue.js;
/cvsroot/mozilla/mailnews/base/resources/content/commandglue.js,v  <--  commandglue.js
new revision: 1.284; previous revision: 1.283
done