309522 - Include "Create Filter From Message" menu item into mail context menu

Status: REOPENED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 SeaMonkey/1.0a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 SeaMonkey/1.0a

To improve usability of the "Create Filter From Message" menu item, it would be
useful to integrate it into the mail context menu.

The only change to accomplish that would be in
mailnews/base/resources/content/mailWindowOverlay.xul (as far as I can say).

Include the following code at the end of <popup id="threadPaneContext"... (line
669 in mailWindowOverlay.xul version 1.301)

<menuseparator/>
<menuitem id="createFilter" label="&createFilter.label;"
              accesskey="&createFilter.accesskey;"
              command="cmd_createFilterFromMenu"/>

Reproducible: Always




Excuse that I can't provide a diff patch. I don't have the time to maintain my
own cvs tree at the moment and I'm bound to 56k dial up until midth of october.

Comment 1

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Would be nice to have it in SeaMonkey 1.0

Comment 2

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

The reason I want that feature is the following. In my opinion all functions
directly related to one distinct email should be available from the context menu
of that mail. Having to use the Message menu isn't really obvious for these kind
of functions. The other way to access "Create Filter From Message" over the mail
address context menu in the header bar of an mail is even more hidden (I only
stumbled over it when browsing through messenger.jar ;))

Bruno

What I oversaw in my first post, it should also be added to messagePaneContext
in messageWindow.xul to have it in the context menu of an opened mail too.

Comment 3

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Even though it'd come handy sometimes, I don't think this particular function is
used often enough to justify an entry of its own in the context menu...

Comment 4

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

Bug 199274 is an enhanced version of my request, duping it against it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 199274 ***

Comment 5

[:aceman]

Actually, bug 199274 concentrating more on the feature of populating the rules of the filter using values from the message.
The original description talked about opening the filter creation via right-click (on the recipient address) but that is not really relevant.

So I suggest de-duping this bug to be separate as this is just about the right-click menu part (not in the mail headers but in mail body).