1584079 - New shortcut to move a message / thread to another folder

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[brwsergms]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0

Steps to reproduce:

I am moving messages and threads to another folder with my mouse via drag and drop.

Actual results:

The message is successfully moved to the desired folder.

Expected results:

It would be nice to have a shortcut for moving messages and threads to another folder to make it more convenient.
If the shortcut is pressed a small "popup" could be displayed where one can choose to folder the message should be moved to.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

There's an add-on that does that: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/quick-folder-move/

Not yet compatible with TB 68, but I have a compatible version here: http://www.jorgk.com/misc/addons63/

Magnus, should we integrate something like this into TB?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I think this would be a great feature

Comment 3

[brwsergms]

(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+2) from comment #1)

There's an add-on that does that: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/quick-folder-move/

Not yet compatible with TB 68, but I have a compatible version here: http://www.jorgk.com/misc/addons63/

Magnus, should we integrate something like this into TB?

Thank you for your suggestion but actually imho I don't think there should be the need for an addon to move a message to another folder.
And it not being compatible yet with Thunderbird 68 makes it kind of difficult for me.

Comment 4

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Well, TB allows to move messages, just not the way you want. I gave the link to a compatible version.

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away until Aug 10)]

Having a search field from within the context menu seems rather unusual (like the add-on). I'm not sure what we want to do here.

Comment 6

[brwsergms]

Could we please get back to this topic?
It is not necessarily a search field within the context menu but maybe a like a dialog.