427066 - always show IMAP quota when available from server

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Bob Lord]

Today someone asked me when Thunderbird introduced the mail quota UI element in the statusbar.  He had never seen it before.  The reason is that the UI element only shows up when you are approaching the quota's limit.  Only today did he pass some IMAP usage mark, triggering the quota UI element to show up.

UI elements that come and go seemingly without cause can confuse even experienced users. I propose that TB always show that UI element when there is an IMAP quota in place.

Further, I propose that the UI element show some sort of indication of how close to the quote I am.  Options might include showing green/yellow/red as I approach the limit, or possible showing a yellow warning triangle with an exclamation mark in it (is there a shorthand name for that thingy?).

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

these do exist, see mail.quota.mainwindow_threshold.show/warning/critical

           x < show     -- hidden
    show < x warning    -- green
 warning < x < critical -- amber
critical < x            -- red

so this boils down to setting mail.quota.mainwindow_threshold.show=0 and adding an icon

Comment 2

[Bob Lord]

I just set mail.quota.mainwindow_threshold.show=0 and the quota does indeed show up. I'm at 24% now, and the color of the bar is the same color of gray as the rest of the chrome.  That seems ok to me.

What do people think of setting this value to 0 by default?

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It was implemented like with those prefs not to waste precious screen space. I don't think people need to care about their quota unless it's approaching the max. 

Comment 4

[Nikolay Shopik]

As workaround using Display Quota addon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/881

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Nikolay Shopik from comment #4)
> As workaround using Display Quota addon
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/881

still works with daily development build

There is however bug 841906, bug 242396 (perhaps), bug 533841

Comment 6

[Codain]

I wish there would be a slider/spinbox to change mail.quota.mainwindow_threshold.show value via Option > General window (under Network and Disk Space?). This way people can change the value to the threshold they want, keeping 75% as a default value.