371152 - Make virtual folders (saved searches) hierarchical

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[flaimo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.9 (20061207)

From an enduser point of view it makes no sense that he can move folders and subfolders around and build hierarchies with them, but not with saved-search-folders. right now search folders always need to be in a "real" folder. 
the new unlimited tags feature in thunderbird 2 will increase the use of virtual folders and therefore the need to structure saved-search-folders in a hierarchical way is definitely there.
i think this should be addressed in conjunction with bug 348128.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[flaimo]

Attachment: photoshoped image of what it could look like

Comment 2

[ovidiu]

this is variation of bug 343243 

funny enough on latest 3.0a2 I get something like the image proposes if:
-create ssearch, quick search it, save from qs dropdown. It places the new ss under the old ss which is useless in terms of funcionality and faulty as it is allowed accidentally, normally cannot do. 

that is in bug 452756 comment#1

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

good comments. if you feel there is a legitimate dup, please make the change.  getting this out of General ... feel free to make a better component choice (but not general)

Comment 4

[:aceman]

They are not dupes.

This one is about visually placing one search folder into another one.

Bug 343243 is about making one search folder operate on msgs from another one.