21438 - Should display newsgroup icon in compose window addressing panel

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Karen Huang]

All platforms 12-10-08-M12 commercial build:

Should display newsgroup icon in compose window addressing panel when trying to
send message to newsgroup.

1) Login to mail
2) Select New Msg
3) Drop down the menu to newsgroup's e-maill address and try to send e-mail to
newsgroup.
4) Actual Result: Notice that the icon for sending message to newsgroup is same
as mails in addressing panel.

Expected Results:Should change this icon reflect to newsgroup in the addressing
panel.

Comment 1

[hangas]

Sending to JF.

Comment 2

[selmer (gone)]

Minor UI fixups to M18.  If this is incorrect, please adjust.

Comment 3

[sol]

Moving to future milestone, since I don't think this will cause big confusion 
for users.

Comment 4

[varada]

Adding mail3 keyword.

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to varada

Comment 6

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

I really mean it :-)

Comment 7

[scottputterman]

marking nsbeta1-

Comment 8

[[e-mail]]

This is a one-liner in content, but it needs help from theme authors:

Index: addressingWidgetOverlay.js
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/mailnews/compose/resources/content/addressingWidgetOv
erlay.js,v
retrieving revision 1.53
diff -u -r1.53 addressingWidgetOverlay.js
--- addressingWidgetOverlay.js  2001/06/22 01:12:31     1.53
+++ addressingWidgetOverlay.js  2001/07/09 13:17:56
@@ -715,6 +715,7 @@

 function _awSetAutoComplete(selectElem, inputElem)
 {
+  inputElem.firstChild.setAttribute('type', selectElem.value);
   if (selectElem.value != 'addr_newsgroups' && selectElem.value != 'addr_follow
up')
     inputElem.disableAutocomplete = false;
   else

Comment 9

[Lori Kaplan]

nominating for shuehan to evaluate. If it's an easy fix, we should definitely
take this for rtm to reduce confusion. I disagree with sol. 

Comment 10

[Lori Kaplan]

reassigning. UI team wants this bug fixed for rtm. 

Comment 11

[scottputterman]

making nsbeta1- per ADT.

Comment 12

[[e-mail]]

Hmmm... this isn't going to go anywhere without some icons :-/

Comment 13

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by ffxbld-merge:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/1dd1f8560d8c
[fenix] Closes https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/21438: Ignore intermittently failing ExceptionsListItemViewHolderTest