304697 - Make attachment pane movable/dockable within message preview pane (Cannot move/change position of attachment pane)

Status: REOPENED

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, enhancement)

Description

[A K]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; ru-RU; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: FireFox 1.0.6 (20050716)

Cannot change position of attachment pane from bottom to the left or top of the
message/

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

It seems a dupe of bug #360647 (that is newest but ham more informations).

Feel free to reopen it if I'm wrong.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to comment #1)

Judging from the descriptions, this bug is not a dupe of bug 360647
--> reopening. 
This bug is about making the whole existing attachment pane moveable (dockable) within the message preview pane. Bug 360647 is about implementing an alternative visual presentation of attachments with more functionality inside the existing attachment pane. Which is clearly not the same. However, these two enhancements would complement each other pretty well.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Sounds like something for an extension.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

We should take a decision about this bug:
NEW or WONTFIX

This is a nice idea, but
- there's a lot of more basic and more important stuff that needs to be done before this. Actually, we'll probably never have the time to do this.
- it doesn't add much in terms of functionality

So I tend to agree with Magnus that this might need an extension, so probably this should be WONTFIX?

Actually, this is another one of those bugs where a fine-tuned WONTFIX value pair resolution would be useful, as I proposed in bug 522873:
WONTFIX + "needs extension"
That way, we're being more appreciative about valid ideas that for some reason we won't do, while preserving valuable information so that such ideas can be systematically searched for lateron.
Magnus, if that makes sense to you, I could need some support in bug 522873.

Comment 5

[alta88]

This feature is available in MoreLayouts.

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to alta88 from comment #5)

This feature is available in MoreLayouts.

Awesome, thanks alta88!

Is this addon also available from ATN?
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/search/?q=MoreLayouts&appver=&platform=

Closing this bug wontfix per my comment 4. We won't have time for this, it's available via Add-on, and the interest here has been low.

Comment 7

[chrizilla]

Maybe this should be reopened since it was wontfixed in comment #6 invoking a now defunct extension:
"Thunderbird 115 - MoreLayouts will no longer be supported as a Thunderbird extension." (source)

Comment 8

[chrizilla]

Reopening because the add-on is gone and won't come back (see comment #7).

Comment 9

[tmw]

This really needs to be implemented, if you have emails set to display below the message list as I do having the attachment list below the message instead of in the top right as it once was makes poor use of screen real estate and makes it less visible to the user. Having a dockable panel so users can choose a layout that works best for the would be so much better.

Comment 10

[IceKnight]

I literally can't see/download any attachments from my laptop which has a maximum resolution of 1366x768 (it's apparently not enough vertical resolution to render them), this really is a bug that prevents some basic functionality from working.

Comment 11

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Please provide a screenshot. But first, try Help | Troubleshoot mode