Status bar doesn't show message counts
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: ygoe, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0
Steps to reproduce:
Open a mail folder
Actual results:
The status bar is empty
Expected results:
The status bar should show the number of unread and total messages in the current folder. Worked in version 60.
Dupe of bug 1831667.
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Comment 2•2 years ago
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Hm, I cannot comment on the other bug, so I'll have to try here.
Where is that mentioned message header area? I don't have that. Effectively, this information is no longer available, anywhere. Please bring it back. I don't care where the numbers are, but I want to see them like I always have in previous versions. Why do new versions always have to remove features?! The older versions are really better in every regard.
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Comment 3•2 years ago
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PS: As developers are trying to figure out how to "improve" an already perfect UI principle, and meanwhile completely destroying it in production, is there a way I can bring this information back through a userChrome.css or add-on? Or am I stuck now because of an immature pre-release version?
I'm not a developer. I just noted that the bug was filed before and closed as WONTFIX. To show the counts, enable the message list header: View > Layout > Message List Header.
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Comment 5•2 years ago
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Thank you for the response. What a strange idea. That header is mostly empty, most of its information is redundant. The total message count would perfectly fit into the statusbar that is already there. No wasted space like with this extra header row. I'd really like to know whether the UI designers have any reasons for changes like this or they are just following stupid trends that completely ignore usability and efficiency (and then fail to implement that, leaving users with a half-broken application for years). Version 60 from 2015 was really the peak of Thunderbird. It only got worse since then.
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Comment 6•1 year ago
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The status bar will eventually go away and it's information better placed in other locations for reasons stated in bug 1831667.
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