272824 - Update the mail start page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Scott MacGregor]

We should update the list of features in the start page and point them to some
mozilla redirect urls which could in turn redirect to the pages in the
mozillazine knowledge base which describe these features.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

in the tbird 1.0rc forum, wintogreen made a good suggestion: change "supporting
advanced junk mail detection" to "providing(*) advanced junk mail detection"

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=175076&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=15

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: screen shot of approach #1

Update the features list to reflect some of our new features. Drop off obvious
ones that like Address book, HTML mail compose, etc.

These new items would all be links to product feature pages Rafael is putting
together but in the short term they would just be redirects to the mozilla zine
knowledge base pages.

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: approach #2, use images with the feature names

this approach uses images next to each feature name to re-inforce the idea.

I was a bit worried at firs that this approach would make the start page too
busy and that it would conflict with the new look account central page which
does all this too. But it doesn't look as bad as I thought...it is growing on
me.

I couldn't think of an icon to use for message grouping so I cut that one from
the list. The image for blocking remote content is too big to be used here as
well so I didn't put that in this mock up either.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

I also shortened up the text at the beginning: Mozilla Thunderbird is a powerful
open-source email client.

Now I think that's too short and needs another sentence.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=167696)
> approach #2, use images with the feature names

I like it! btw, since each item in the list has an image, how would it look
without the bullets?

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: experiment with losing the bullet items

ignore the alignment issue with message grouping

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

actually I just realized we probably can't use our theme artwork here. This
isn't going to work right at all on the mac where these icons have completely
different names (and sizes for that matter). Furthermore any 3rd party theme
that you were running with would also potentially show broken images for these
things.

I suspect we'll have to go back to a variation of approach #1

Comment 8

[wintogreen]

I like version 1 the best anyway; it's cleaner-looking. But don't you dare use
that flaming blue goose for the background image!

Comment 9

[carl]

Why don´t you use the official Thunderbird icon picture as background picture?
I don´t think that the background picture you are using in approach#1 is very
pretty!

Comment 10

[wintogreen]

Scott, since there was nothing in the knowledge base about RSS, I whipped up a
page that you can link to until something better is made. I'm not really an RSS
user, but I think it covers basic setup OK.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

I had asked Scott about the flaming goose, and it only appears in debug builds,
not the release builds.

Comment 12

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: final copy

everyone happy with the wording?

Here are the redirects we'll need to set up:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/junkmail.html
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/rss.html
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/global-inbox.html
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/search-folders.html
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/message-grouping.html
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/privacy-protection.html

Comment 13

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

Comment 14

[wintogreen]

(In reply to comment #12)
> everyone happy with the wording?

Looks good. Couple of minor suggestions:
(1) Put a comma between "powerful" and "open-source".
(2) Instead of "global inbox", say "global inbox option" or something similar.
The fact that you can choose is definitely a strength of TB.

Comment 15

[Scott MacGregor]

thanks a lot for the feedback wintogreen and of course even more thanks for
writing up the RSS page!

Comment 16

[Scott MacGregor]

fixed branch and trunk.

The redirects for the URLS haven't been hooked up yet. We'll do that this weekend. 

Comment 17

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

I hooked up the redirects except for the last one, doesn't have a page to point
to.  Scott, can you check to see if they links are okay?

Comment 18

[Scott MacGregor]

the only redirect that didn't work was:

junkmai.html

wintogreen, any interest in writing a short knowledge base page on thunderbird
blocking remote images and other content from people you don't know? This
protects your privacy by preventing spammers from verifying your e-mail address
and when you viewed a message from them....

Comment 19

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

I think you meant this doesn't work:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/privacy-protection.html

the junkmail one works.  your example needed an "L".

Comment 20

[Scott MacGregor]

ahh your right it does work. Cool.

Comment 21

[wintogreen]

Scott, here's a simple write-up for Privacy:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Privacy_Basics

I don't have a clear grasp of how Javascript blocking relates to privacy per se,
so I didn't mention that option. If someone else wants to add a blurb about it,
please go ahead.

Comment 22

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

tested with 200412050x-0.9 on linux and mac. everything looks good, other than
the previously noted issue with the privacy-protection.html redirect (not yet
working).