326394 - mark folder by the label color

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135472

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[wojciech jukowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.6 (20050716)

I have many important messages divided by folders. The tree is very long and browsing it takes time. It would be great if a folder name could change color if it contains labeled messages.

Example:
+
|-- <red> my project ( 4) </red>
|
|--- <orange> todo  </orange>
|
'-- transfer log (12)

The only problem i see is choosing folder's color when it contains more messages with >= 2 labels.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

Don't agree with folder coloring. Since a number of different labels are defined, we'd end up with rainbows.

Wojciech - btw, your Tb is quite old. Get an update (1.5.0.1); it's worthwhile. In particular for your problem: You can search for a label and then save your search as a "Saved Search" folder always readily accessible, allowing you to avoid opening every single folder or to always manually define a new search for these "little buggers" you're after.

See, e.g. http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Menu_Reference#New_Saved_Search...
(couldn't find a better link but this really works intuitively...)

I hope you agree

 a) after looking into latter option and 

 b) considering your own reservations towards your suggestion (>=2 labels)

that this request has not much of a future and is rather to be considered as "unwanted behaviour". I will close it accordingly as INVALID. However, if you do feel this doesn't do the problem justice, do report back and ask for it to be reopened.

Regards, Cigno

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 135472?

Comment 3

[Ray Booysen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135472 ***