273875 - messages downloaded for offline use should have special/different icon

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Marco Pratesi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804

Let us suppose that Thunderbird is used with the default theme,
i.e. that no additional themes for Thunderbird have been installed.

If I use the Messenger of the Mozilla Suite, when I select a message
and download it (File -> Offline -> Get Selected Messages), the mail icon
displayed at the beginning of the "Subject" field (in the top-right part
of the Messenger window) changes: if the Classic theme is used,
a grey mail icon is used, and this makes evident that the message
has been downloaded and synchronized for offline usage.

On the contrary, the default Thunderbird theme uses the same icon
both for downloaded and non downloaded messages.
This may seem a not so relevant problem, but it is very important for me,
as I heavily (need to) use the offline features of Mozilla and,
before going offline, I need to easily distinguish on the GUI
which messages have downloaded and which have not been downloaded.

Marco Pratesi


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up an imap account
2. Get new messages
3. Select a message, then File -> Offline -> Get Selected Messages

Actual Results:  
The mail icon displayed at the beginning of the "Subject" field
in the top-right part of the Messenger window is just the same
as before the download of the message for offline usage.

Expected Results:  
The mail icon displayed at the beginning of the "Subject" field
in the top-right part of the Messenger window should change
after the download of the message for offline usage, to make
evident that the message is available also for offline usage.

Some additional themes are not affected by this problem,
but the default theme is, and additional themes are not immediately
updated when a new Thunderbird version is released.

Comment 1

[Rob North]

I assume by "top-right part" of the window do you mean the "thread pane" (in
non-developer language, the list of messages/threads)?

If you do, I'm seeing this too in Thunderbird 1.0

Comment 2

[Marco Pratesi]

> I assume by "top-right part" of the window do you mean the "thread pane"
> (in non-developer language, the list of messages/threads)?

Yes, exactly.
The following screenshot evidences the feature provided by Mozilla
Messenger with the "classic" theme:

http://www.marcopratesi.it/DOWNLOAD/bug273875.jpg

The first message has not been downloaded, the second one
*has* been downloaded, and this is evidenced by a different mail icon,
indicated by the red arrow I have added to the screenshot.

Comment 3

[Marco Pratesi]

Attachment: Screenshot of the feature provided by Mozilla Messenger

I am attaching the screenshot mentioned in my previous comment.

Comment 4

[Doron Shikmoni]

*** Bug 286264 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Doron Shikmoni]

Problem is there (and causing pain). Please do not close.

Comment 7

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

It appears this was taken out, while making the offline component a separate
XPI. It may have been intentional; I don't know. Maybe Scott can tell us.

Comment 8

[Nino]

thu-1.5b2 still the same - why is this bug still of "unconfirmed" status? The bug is so obvious ;-)

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Nino wrote in comment #8)
> thu-1.5b2 still the same - why is this bug still of "unconfirmed" status? The
> bug is so obvious ;-)

can you attach a screen shot?

Comment 10

[Nino]

Attachment: the upper 2 messages have been downloaded for offline reading, the lower are still on the server. How to tell them apart?

Well, as I'm using tb Version 2.0.0.14 (20080421) now, and still am not able to recognize messages which I have not yet downloaded for reading them offline: the upper two messages *have* been downloaded, the lower two are still on the server. Can you tell them apart? I can't :-)

Comment 11

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirming RFE. Bug 128694 seems ~ for sm.