Closed Bug 394596 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Preview pane display when multiple selections in List-view

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 364896

People

(Reporter: buralex, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.6 (20070728)

Feature request - use Outlook Express behavior
This is about the only behavior I miss from Outlook Express ...

Currently: 
1) click an email in the list view - result: email is selected and contents displayed in the preview pane.
2) extend selection by any of available means eg. Hold <shift> and <arrowUP> or <arrowDown>
2b) behavior - selection is added/restricted and preview pane is cleared
2c) desired behavor - as above, except email with most "recently" added to selection be displayed.
2d) behavior if item(s) have just been removed from selection and more than one item still selected: ambiguous - any reasonable design choice including (current behavior) displaying blank preview pane would be fine.

Use case: a "bunch" of emails have been filtered by my rules to a "spam" folder.
I want to quickly scan them to make sure its ok to delete all. It would be "nice" to have a quick view of there contents to make sure none of them are false positives.

I'm not a Programmer - is this a logical candidate for an extension rather than an addition to the core? If added, it would be "best" to have a toolbar button that would turn this behavior ON/OFF

due diligence: I tried to find prior discussion of this in Bugizilla, Thunderbird forums and Add-ons. I can't believe it hasn't come up before but if so I wasn't able to guess the right keywords ;-(

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click an email in the list view - result: email is selected and contents displayed in the preview pane
2. extend selection by any of available means eg. Hold <shift> and <arrowUP> or <arrowDown>
3.
Actual Results:  
2. Selection is extended/reduced.
As soon as more than one item is selected, preview pane is blanked.

Expected Results:  
(Desired) Contents of email item most recently added to selection group is displayed in preview pane. If selection has just been reduced display the "previous" one.

eg. 
email A selected=A display=A
 
Shift+down selected=A,B display=B
 
Shift+down selected=A,B,C  display=C

Shift+up selected=A,B display=B

Ctrl+click on D (anywhere else) selected=A,B,D display=D

Ctrl+click on D (again - removing it from selection) selected=A,B display=B (implementation detail: ambiguous-display D OR display=None are both reasonable)
Just adding my expected results. I have no idea what happens to duplicate bugs, and if the team would like a vote for how the preview window should act when multiple messages are selected, this is mine:

Expected Results:  
Last message in the select range should be shown in the viewer window. That's
because the focus should remain on the last message selected and the contents
of the message with the focus should be shown in the viewer.

Here is my screenshot from openSuSE 10.2, Thunderbird Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.6 (20070801)

http://www.3111skyline.com/tbird_multiple_noshow.png
Duplicate bugs are just marked of duplicates, and all activity around that issue will happen in the bug that is un-resolved.

This bug, however is dupe of bug 364896 (and thus this bug is now closed in favor of that one).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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