418024 - message in separate tab or standalone window needs to show read and star status

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

without icon in the standalone windows, you don't know if typing an "S" will assign or remove starred status from a message.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

FWIW, messages "read" status is also not indicated in standalone window

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

/driving me crazy/

Comment 3

[ovidiu]

Changed summary to reflect both
-tabs and standalone win
-read and star
if the case to separate them, excuse. At least tab and standalone are pretty much same case and solution if we talk about the header area. Wether is read and/or star, that is another issue. Some bugs are on priority also for this kind of case.

add dep to reader enh bug

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

agree 100% on all points. will wait to see whether the issues need to be split into another bug.

Comment 5

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Is this a regression, or did this happen in Tb2 also?

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Not a regression. Star has never been shown.  The more I use standalone window, the more not-minor this issue becomes.

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I'd love to see this, too.  The "shift+M" to mark unread status and "M" to mark read being separated was a useful workaround to not knowing the current state, but that apparently didn't last long.  Explicitly showing the state would remove the guesswork about what the toggle version will do.

Comment 9

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

How about something like the following:

* Indicate read/unread through boldface on the subject (this would mean that
  subjects would typically be *un*bold, however)
* Indicate starred messages with a star after (before?) the subject
* To eliminate confusion with the email address stars, turn those into little
  people, a la the address book/composer

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Jim Porter (:squib) from comment #9)
> How about something like the following:
> 
> * Indicate read/unread through boldface on the subject (this would mean that
>   subjects would typically be *un*bold, however)
might be problematic for some people? (I'm not one)

> * Indicate starred messages with a star after (before?) the subject
> * To eliminate confusion with the email address stars, turn those into little
>   people, a la the address book/composer

yes on all counts

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Attachment: mockup

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

The message reader is being largely rebuilt for version 115. So this issue is will not be fixed for the current version 102.

If the problem exists in version 115 when it becomes available in July please file a new bug. You can also evalute the rebuilt reader in 3-4 weeks by trying a beta build.