395695 - Attachments icons should switch to the smaller icons when the number of attachments with the big icons would cause the attachments pane to overflow

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 382821

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Lairo]

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Build Identifier: version 3.0a1pre (2007090904)

Attachments icons should switch to the smaller icons (on left of filenames) when the number of attachments with the big icons would cause the attachments pane to overflow.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. receive e-mail with ~10 attachments
Actual Results:  
Large attachments' icons cause premature overflow of the attachment pane with too few attachments visible at one time.

Expected Results:  
Attachments' icons should auto-switch to the smaller icons (to the left of the filenames) when the large icons and the number of attachments would cause the attachment pane to overflow.

This would allow for the larger icons in the vast majority of cases (~1-3 attachments) but would allow the user to see more filenames when there are many attachments. 

Justification:
Seeing as many attachments as possible is more important than having large attachment-icons IMO!

Comment 1

[Peter Lairo]

BTW: I don't like the large icons method because it forces the filenames to be needlessly truncated - a bad thing with ever longer filenames. 

The small icon method could allow the filenames to be as wide as the message-panel and/or half the width if the number of attachments would justify displaying the list of attachments in two columns.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

See also bug 382821 comment 1.

Comment 3

[Johannes Falk]

I would prefer bug 382821 comment 4,
to be able to choose *no* icons.

Comment 4

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Sound like a dupe of bug #395695.

Comment 5

[Peter Lairo]

This is bug 395695! :-\

Comment 6

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> This is bug 395695! :-\

I'm sorry Peter... :-(

Sound like a dupe of bug #382821

Comment 7

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > This is bug 395695! :-\
> 
> I'm sorry Peter... :-(
> 
> Sound like a dupe of bug #382821

Agreeing this would be solved by smal icons.

Comment 8

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Cleanup *dupeme* whiteboard flag from bugs that are marked as Resolved Duplicate!