1527041 - display preference 'Show only display name for people in my address book' is ambiguous

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243258

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[signupemail]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

Looked at the 'Show only display name for people in my address book' (having found it).

Actual results:

I did not know which of the following was meant.

(1) When I receive an e-mail from person P, if P has a 'display name' set in my address book, then show only - anywhere - that display name and not any name that P's e-mail itself encodes.
(2) Never show display names, except for people in my address book.

Perhaps 2 does not even make sense, but my brain turns somersaults trying to parse, 'Show only display name for people in my address book'.

Expected results:

The description should be clear, whilst also being fairly succinct. If necessary, give a brief description and then a fuller one in brackets afterwards.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I agree, the description might be somewhat unclear. (but surely not dangerous or harmful)

Looked at the 'Show only display name for people in my address book' (having found it).

Please fully descriptions in bug reports - I had to first determine what you are describing is in options (preferences)

Comment 2

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Since we already have a checkbox in the Add/Edit Contact Dialog for the address book labelled: Always prefer display name over message header, we could use a similar format for consistency.

Here are some suggestions:

• Always prefer "Display Name" over message header for known contacts.
• Always prefer "Display Name" over message header for contacts in my Address Book.
• Always show "Display Name" over message header for known contacts.

Or a combination of these.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Can you do a patch for comment 2?

Comment 4

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

We solved this problem in bug 243258, and removed that preference in bug 1894048