1821909 - Allow Favorite Folder-Pane to stay fixed / pinned, and not scroll

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[simon]

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Expected results:

It would be great if there was an option to make the Favorite Folder-Pane fixed, so that the All Folders-List would scroll "behind" the favorites. This way one can always have fast access to the favorites and does not have to scroll all the way up to access them (e.g. when at the end of "All Folders" list).

Comment 1

[Richard Leger]

This enhancement has still not been fixed in Beta as of 146.0b2 (64-bit).

Any chance that the feature to allow Favorite Folder pane to be pinned so it stay on screen at all time while you scroll down the All Folders pane could be implemented sooner than later and at the latest for the next ESR?

It is quite cumbersome already when you need to scroll down to find a folder within thousands, but it is even more cumbersome that you have to scroll all the way up to be able to access any of your favorite folders especially Inbox, Sent... and any others you may have add to Favorite Folders. Especially if you look for a folder and realised that the message you wanted to move into it is in one of your favorite folder and you forgot to first access that folder and select the message before browsing for the long list of folders to find a target (for copy/move message)!

I see two feature that would be useful to be implemented here:

• Ability to pin the Favorite Folder pane (should be the default to my humble opinion)

• Ability to scroll back all the way to the top of All Folders pane list in on click. Maybe add an overlay button with arrow up within the pane (always visible - except when at the top of the list) to allow go to the top of the list in just one click.

Incidentally such button would also be quite handy within the Message List. For example you may look for a message in Sent folder, browse down the list, move to other tasks, then wan to access a recent Sent message, to only discover while clicking on Sent folder that the top message is not the most recent sent item which looks odd. Then you realise that you are not at the top of the list (which is not evident/instinctive to identify at first glance), therefore requiring to find the scroll button (which is hidden and very difficult to access - way too small) to finally having to scroll all the way up (quite cumbersome) to access the first messages in the list. Having the ability to quickly go back to the top of the list with a one click button (maybe at top right corner of the pane?) would be very handy. If such button was only visible when not at the top of the list, it would help identify that when accessing the folder, you don't see the top of the list. Hope that make sense.