273558 - Alternating row colors for Mac TB sucks, no real way to intelligently say it...

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Daniel Beckham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In the Mac version of TB 1.0, the mail window has alternating colors (white and
grey) for each message in the list.

1) This follows no current Apple design spec and it's especially incongruous
with the rest of the applications available on the Mac platform.
2) It's **** the eyes and distracting.  It hides your mail in a sea of bland
white and grey bars of non-color for no reason.
3) I'll color my mail how I choose using labels.  Isn't that what they are for?
4) Yes, I'm whining about something trivial, but the row colors are just asinine.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 1) This follows no current Apple design spec and it's especially incongruous
> with the rest of the applications available on the Mac platform.

like iTunes ? Or the Address Book ?

Comment 2

[Daniel Beckham]

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > 1) This follows no current Apple design spec and it's especially incongruous
> > with the rest of the applications available on the Mac platform.
> 
> like iTunes ? Or the Address Book ?
> 

Alright, I'll give you those two applications.  But that's two out of how many?
 Neither of those allow you highlight rows with custom colors, though.  The
finder does, but no row highlighting.  I still think it's a bad design here and
doesn't work with the message labeling.

Comment 3

[jonathan.courtney]

I am thrown off by this too.  Perhaps it is that the choice of colors -- grey instead of light blue -- is at 
odds with other apps?  It seems that in most other Mac apps a grey line indicates an item that was 
previously selected.  Consider the iTunes browser: white/light blue lines are used to differentiate  
individual tracks, grey lines indicate the artist & album selected, and a blue line indicates the current 
track.  Consequently, when I saw the default Mac TB theme the first time, I thought that half my 
messages had somehow been selected.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[jonathan.courtney]

Is it possible to configure the default theme to turn off alternating row colors?

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Scott, UI, see comment 2.  wontfix?  

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still true on Mac?

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Never was entirely true, but since list view in the 10.5 Finder now has alternating white and grey bars, not wontfix but invalid. There are certainly things we still have wrong, but "remove the alternating background because nothing on the Mac uses that" is just flat out not true.