425359 - consider automatically creating a virtual folder the first time the user stars/tags a message

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #345129 +++

The kids love the "star" feature of gmail, and I think it's a more understandable than "flag" in this day and age.

I don't know if gmail always creates a starred folder, or just does it the first time the user stars a mail, but I think we should do the latter. We might want to do something fancy like not do this if a pref is set, and automatically set the pref if the user deletes the "star" folder.

We might want to also give the option to the user to create a virtual folder for a tag when the user creates a tag (though we'd need to know which account to do it for). That doesn't handle when they use an existing built-in tag like Important - but we might want to do something similar - create a virtual folder automatically (this might get annoying, so we might want one of those "don't do this anymore/do this automatically" dialogs the first time.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

(The above is from bug 345129.)

Comment 2

[ovidiu]

See bug379928 as a dupe of this. 
Note: that one states that wants *cross account* virtual folder ..

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I think we should want something like this for TB3. Or search/view capability for starred, which, shockingly, I'm not finding any bugs requesting it.

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Bug 363473, comment #1 also suggests a cross-account virtual folder for tags, just like Bug 379928.

Comment 7

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Apart from gmail, another model to look at might be Firefox bookmarks Library, they also have a tags section that automatically lists all tags with their respective bookmarks.

Comment 8

[brandt24]

Actually this should be a bug, instead of a feature. It's just mind numbing that this hasn't been fixed so far.

Comment 10

[chrizilla]

Attachment: mockup.png

Although semantically the star is not a "tag", visually it would nicely add to the virtual tag folders (see mock screenshot).