395605 - [meta] New mail alert notification enhancement

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Berwyn]

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: 2.0.0.6 (20070728)

Further improvements to the mail alert pop-up.  This comes from discussion with Scott MacGreggor who made the current mail alert impovements.

The mail alert can already stay on screen as long as you want by setting the fade time in the config editor under alerts (though it could also be put in a more obvious place).  This is very useful if you like your alert to stay on-screen until you've read the email.

The following enhancements would be a good addition to this functionality:

* alert should automatically disappear once you click the last message listed inside it.

* clicking on a message alert should not only open the thunderbird message window at that message, but should open the message itself.

* the alert window should update when a new message comes in, even if it hasn't faded out yet.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn on mail alert pop-up
2. Set about:config alert fade time to a big number so it doesn't disappear
3. Receive some new mail

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 315776 and/or bug 282619?

Comment 2

[Thomas Bertels]

Making it open the message when clicked would actually make it easier to close the message alert.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #0)

> The mail alert can already stay on screen as long as you want by setting the
> fade time in the config editor under alerts (though it could also be put in a
> more obvious place).  This is very useful if you like your alert to stay
> on-screen until you've read the email.
> 

What is the exact pref for that ?

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

The pref is alerts.totalOpenTime

Comment 5

[Thomas Bertels]

Adding bug 378150 as it's closely related.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Hi Thomas. Assuming this is not intended to be a meta bug for ALL mail notification alert bugs .... can you clarify precisely what this bug is about so the bug summary can be changed to something more specific than "Mail alert enhancement"?   

Thanks

Comment 7

[Thomas Bertels]

Yes, I think I meant to make this a meta bug.

Comment 8

[M Lopez-Ibanez]

Bug 410338

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(not a well refined) query of notification bugs https://mzl.la/2KDKYNH

Comment 10

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Wayne, is there any defined difference between this meta bug and biff tracker bug 36011 which has a much larger collection?

Maybe we could close this and merge the few dependent bugs into the big lot of bug 36011.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Thomas D. (:thomas8) from comment #10)

Wayne, is there any defined difference between this meta bug and biff tracker bug 36011 which has a much larger collection?

This bug apparently was intended to cover the items from a conversation between Scott and Berwyn, a small idea about how notification looked and acted, not about what caused the notification to display (or failed to display). Unfortunately it got polluted since then with unrelated bugs.

Also, in the great tradition of how meta bugs were used long ago when bugzilla search wasn't great, meta bugs like bug 36011 were enormous. This bug is not.

Maybe we could close this and merge the few dependent bugs into the big lot of bug 36011.

We could. Or we could repurpose this bug to be about the UI and and UI behavior, and remove those from bug 36011. And leave backendy stuff to bug 36011. I don't have strong feelings about it.