371217 - need more appropriate indicator for non-displayed e-mail addresses

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[philiptdotcom]

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: 2.0.0.1

This is a "usability" issue.

Seems that Thunderbird needs a more appropriate way to indicate that there are more addresses (e.g., in the "To:" section) than are being displayed.  I suggest a terminal comma-and-(hyperlinked-)ellipsis a the end of an incomplete list.  See http://www.philipt.com/temp/mozilla/thunderbird/20070221/ for an illustration of exactly what I mean.

(Couldn't figure out how to add this image as an attachment to this "bug(/suggestion) report, which would seemingly be more appropriate in this case... someone feel free to add the graphic at that site as an attachment to this thread if you know how.)

Thanks in advance for your consideration of this (and my apologies if it's a dup; I couldn't find an exact match.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive an e-mail with more addresses than will display (e.g., in the "To:" section);

2. Note that there's no clear contextual indication at the END of the list (which is the obvious place to look from a usability standpoint);

3. CAST YOUR VOTE FOR THIS FIX!  :)
Actual Results:  
no clear contextual indication at the END of the list (which is the obvious place to look from a usability standpoint) that there are more (undisplayed) addresses

Expected Results:  
have a clear contextual indication at the END of the list (which is the obvious place to look from a usability standpoint) that there are more (undisplayed) addresses

Comment 1

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

This should be fixed in 3.0+, since the end of the list now has a link that says "more".