164090 - Mail compose window status bar feedback

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 166724

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Joel Nelson (don't send email)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020810
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020810

(Request for enhancement) -- the status bar in the Mail Compose window should
display an icon for mail preferences set for the current outgoing message -- to
let the sender see "at a glance" what features they are using.   Some
possibilities include HTML, priority, return receipt, etc.   If priority is set
to "high", for example, a red exclamation point could be displayed in the status
bar. If set to low, possibly a down-arrow.    As soon as HTML formatting is
applied, the HTML icon could be activated.   Marking as "unconfirmed" as while I
didn't see a request for this while searching, it seems surprising that it would
have not yet been requested. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
RFE

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

I'm not sure the Status Bar would be the right place for these. I think it's
intended to show information application status; online/offline,
secure/nonsecure, components, etc. The things you mention could be shown in the
same area the address and attachments are, though.

Comment 2

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

confirming bug, adding ui keyword so that the ui people can look at it and
decide if the status bar is the right place 

personnaly i think the toolbar would be the right area (cahnge and current state
in one place)

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Duping to bug specifically about the priority icon.  The rest of this bug is 
too vague to consider.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 166724 ***