264634 - RFE: Allow different systray indicators & add some new rules to the rule engine

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11040

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[dimiter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040930 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040930 Firefox/0.10.1

It would be nice if the system tray icon would indicate the priority of the
highest-priority message from the newly received. It could be a gray icon for
low priority, normal for normal priority and red or normal with blinking
exclamation mark for high priority.

This combined with some rules to change the priority of the received messages
would allow me to mark all mail list messages as low-priority and all messages
from people at my office as high, so I won't have to check what is in the new
mail every 5 minutes.

Perhaps should be another request, but it would be also nice to have a rule to
customize the notification, e.g. systray icon + baloon (the current), systray
icon only or nothing at all (as for the messages in the junk folder).

Another idea is to make the rule/icons per folder and not per priority. I'm not
sure which will be the best way to tackle it.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a mail from a mail list
2. Get a mail from your coleague
3. Get a mail from your boss
Actual Results:  
1. The BIFF indicator and the systray icon shows
2. BIFF indicator shows
3. BIFF indicator shows

Expected Results:  
1. A rule should assign low priority and the systray icon should display a low
priority icon. Possibly another rule would suppress the BIFF indicator.

2. The BIFF indicator would show up, the systray icon would change to normal
message.

3. A rule should assign high priority, the BIFF indicator would show up, the
systray icon would change to high priority. Possibly another rule could display
dialog box in case I'm away or fullscreen.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

xref Seamonkey bug 104809, bug 188754, bug 201420, bug 219510.
Also TB bug 216624 / Seamonkey bug 249938.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[dimiter]

I think that this request still makes sense

Comment 5

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

This is a question for drivers.

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think this would be mostly handled by bug 11040, or possibly one of the bugs in comment 1.