Implement a `Show Local Folders` toggle in the Folder Pane Header meatball menu
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, task, P3)
Tracking
(thunderbird115? fixed)
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(Reporter: aleca, Assigned: aleca)
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(Blocks 1 open bug, )
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(Whiteboard: [Supernova3p])
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Allow users to hide the Local Folders
from the folder pane by exposing a simple toggle in the meatball menu of the Folder Pane Header.
This option should also be exposed in the Menu Bar inside View > Folders
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All these options should be covered by tests.
Comment 1•1 year ago
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One slight complication with this is the Outbox which is - unfortunately - atm global.
Comment 2•1 year ago
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Please also take along the use case for showing only the Local Folders, which is what I have always used but is currently no longer possible in the 112 beta (at least up to beta3). It now displays all the individual accounts, and there seems to be no way to suppress that.
(I collect e-mail from various accounts into the local folders, and only need to see the latter)
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Comment 3•1 year ago
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(In reply to Gert-Jan Vons from comment #2)
Please also take along the use case for showing only the Local Folders
How did you achieve that before?
If I'm not wrong that's only possible if you don't set any account, unless I'm missing some specific feature I'm not aware of.
I guess you could still achieve it by adding the local folders to your Favorite, and only show the Favorite folder mode.
Comment 4•1 year ago
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(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #1)
One slight complication with this is the Outbox which is - unfortunately - atm global.
As long as that is the case, I think Local Folders should automatically show up again as soon as there's anything in Outbox (even when generally hidden), until we have per-account outboxes.
(In reply to Alessandro Castellani [:aleca] from comment #3)
(In reply to Gert-Jan Vons from comment #2)
Please also take along the use case for showing only the Local Folders
How did you achieve that before?
Gert-Jan, can you answer?
If I'm not wrong that's only possible if you don't set any account, unless I'm missing some specific feature I'm not aware of.
It can also be achieved using Global Inbox
feature of Advanced Server Settings of POP account, as I once explained on Matrix.
I guess you could still achieve it by adding the local folders to your Favorite, and only show the Favorite folder mode.
Smart!
Comment 5•1 year ago
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(In reply to Alessandro Castellani [:aleca] from comment #3)
(In reply to Gert-Jan Vons from comment #2)
Please also take along the use case for showing only the Local Folders
How did you achieve that before?
If I'm not wrong that's only possible if you don't set any account, unless I'm missing some specific feature I'm not aware of.
It is related the Global Inbox feature, configured by going to <account>/Server settings/Message storage/Advanced... This opens the Advanced Account Setting dialog , where you can select the inbox of a different account to store incoming mail. I have set up all my accounts to store the mail in the "Local Folder" account.
In previous versions, this resulted in the account not being visible anymore in the folder list (after restart). I just confirmed this using an older TB version and a new profile.
The setting is still present in TB112b3, but now the account remains visible.
I guess you could still achieve it by adding the local folders to your Favorite, and only show the Favorite folder mode.
You can't add "Local Folders" itself to the favorites. In addition, sub-folders are not visible in the favorites; if you have a folder A with sub-folders B and C, and add A to the favorites, you will only see A itself in there, not B and C below it.
Comment 6•1 year ago
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FYI, a workaround is to move the Local Folders account to the top of the account list. The order can be changed in the Account settings dialog, using drag&drop (would be nice to do have this possibility directly in the Folder Pane as well).
This way, the full Folder Pane height is available for the folders and sub-folders of the Local Folders account; the other accounts are simply pushed down.
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Comment 7•10 months ago
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This is something nice to have but it won't be a blocker for 115 as it requires more exploration.
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Comment 10•10 months ago
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Pushed by mkmelin@iki.fi:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/f896ed7dcdb8
Implement a Hide Local Folders option for the Folder Pane. r=darktrojan
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Comment 11•10 months ago
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Comment on attachment 9337388 [details]
Bug 1817913 - Implement a Hide Local Folders option for the Folder Pane. r=darktrojan
[Approval Request Comment]
Regression caused by (bug #): -
User impact if declined: Added ability to hide local folders for users that don't use them
Testing completed (on c-c, etc.): on c-c
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): The patch simply prevents the visualization of local folders in the folder pane. It doesn't prevent their creation and it doesn't interact with the back-end. It should be fairly low risk and it's opt-in only.
Comment 12•10 months ago
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Comment on attachment 9337388 [details]
Bug 1817913 - Implement a Hide Local Folders option for the Folder Pane. r=darktrojan
[Triage Comment]
Approved for beta w/ wsmwk via Matrix
Comment 13•10 months ago
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bugherder uplift |
Thunderbird 115.0b2:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/665d45edd362
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