2012358 - Message Filters: Need A Way to Know The Full Path of The Folders for "Move/Copy Message to" Actions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Barnes [:WoofGrrrr]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0

Steps to reproduce:

I opened the Filter Rules for a Message Filter that has a "Move Message to" Action and moved the cursor over the folder name of the Action.

I then clicked on the folder name and then tried to see what actual folder was currently selected.

Actual results:

Nothing

Expected results:

1. The full path of the Folder should be displayed as a tooltip.
2. The elements of the currently-selected folder's path should be highlighted.

When you have more than one folder with the same name, it's impossible to distinguish them. Furthermore, there's nothing to help guide you to find the actual folder in the folder pane.

You can't even know this by clicking on the folder name, which shows you ONLY the ROOT folders, with additional menus and sub-menus, etc, where you can only SELECT a folder.

Comment 1

[Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw]]

Attachment: Bug 2012358 - Improve folder path visibility in folder pickers and filter editor. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

• Add a tooltip to the folder picker showing the complete folder path.

• Display the full folder path for rule action targets in the filter editor.

• Update the separator between the folder path and server name from a hyphen
  to an en dash (–) for better typographic clarity.

Comment 2

[Mark Barnes [:WoofGrrrr]]

(In reply to Hartmut Welpmann [:welpy-cw] from comment #1)

• Update the separator between the folder path and server name from a hyphen
  to an en dash (–) for better typographic clarity.

I would like to suggest using a slash (/) instead.

• they can't be included in a folder's name
• we're all so used to seeing the slash used as a separator in pathnames

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/7ef394bc86a2
Improve folder path visibility in folder pickers and filter editor. r=mkmelin