1969779 - Add "Go to Message" Option to New Mail Desktop Notification Pop-up in Thunderbird.

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[dirk.lenssen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0

Steps to reproduce:

This is a feature request, not a bug report. Currently, when a new email arrives in Thunderbird, a desktop notification pop-up appears.

Actual results:

The desktop notification pop-up for new mail currently offers only "Delete" and "Ignore" options. There is no direct option to open or navigate to the newly received message from this pop-up.

Expected results:

Codefragment

I would like to request the addition of a third option to this new mail desktop notification pop-up: "Go to Message".

Adding a "Go to Message" option would significantly improve the user workflow by providing a direct link from the notification pop-up to the newly arrived email. Clicking this option should:

1. Bring Thunderbird to the foreground (if it's in the background or minimized).
2. Navigate directly to the newly received email, opening it in the preview pane or a new message tab/window, depending on the user's Thunderbird display settings.

This enhancement would greatly benefit users who frequently receive new emails and prefer a more direct route from notification to message content, improving efficiency and user experience.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Agreed, that's kind of missing.

Comment 2

[Ed]

If implemented, I hope this actually works. In Windows, clicking the notification is supposed to open TB but it doesn't. See bug 1935298.

Comment 3

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Clicking anywhere else on the notification should do this, it always has. Perhaps you're also experiencing the bug mentioned above.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

While clicking the notification does it, it's not necessarily obvious, especially when there are other buttons there. (I feel "tempted" to use one of the others while I don't want them.)