1909871 - Make Active message in Message List more noticeable when not selected

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Lairo]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Steps to reproduce:

Summary

When a message in the Message List is active and selected (has been clicked on), the active message Card receives a nice noticeable highlight. But when the user clicks somewhere else, e.g. to select some "neutral" area in order to avoid accidentally doing something unwanted to the message (e.g. delete, archive, mark as junk) or into the message (e.g. to select text, scroll, click a link), then the Active message in the Message List loses almost all of its highlighting and thus becomes hard to locate in the Message List.

Theme in use: Mozilla's "System theme" in dark mode
Thunderbird Daily, 130.0a1 (2024-07-24) (64-bit)
OS: Windows 10

Actual results:

UI Description

Non-selected messages:

• Pill background: slightly lighter dark-gray than surrounding background.
• no other visual markings

Selected message:

• Pill background: very pale version of OS's highlight color
• Pill border: OS's highlight color
• Thick vertical line to the left of the Pill: OS's highlight color

Active but not selected message (e.g. click into message text):

• Thick vertical line to the left of the Pill: lighter dark-gray than non-selected messages' background
• no other visual markings
  NOTE: Very hard to distinguish from other messages.

Expected results:

Solution

Active but not selected messages uses the OS's highlight color for the thick vertical line to the left of the Pill.

Comment 1

[Peter Lairo]

Attachment: Screenshot - selected message - 01 - active and selected

Comment 2

[Peter Lairo]

Attachment: Screenshot - selected message - 02 - active but NOT selected

Comment 3

[Peter Lairo]

Attachment: Screenshot - selected message - 03 - SOLUTION for active but NOT selected

Comment 4

[Jon S]

Posted to Connect here: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/make-active-message-in-message-list-more-noticeable-when-not/idi-p/63302

Comment 5

[Miłosz Kosobucki]

(In reply to Jon S from comment #4)

Posted to Connect here: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/make-active-message-in-message-list-more-noticeable-when-not/idi-p/63302

Hey. Seems that this page doesn't exist anymore.

Comment 6

[Jon S]

Thanks for the heads up. It should be visible now. If it's edited after posting to Connect, it goes through moderation again.