45290 - Mail Compose: No feedback when using message "Options"

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[jglick]

Composing a Mail message.

From the "Options" menu, select:
1. A Priority other than "Normal"  OR
2. Return Receipt  OR
3. File Sent Message

The status bar should give the user feedback that their selections were noted.

http://gooey/client/5.0/specs/mail/Compose/Compose.html#Status

I'm not sure if this do-able at this stage of the game, but I wanted a record of 
the spec'd behavior.

Comment 1

[lchiang]

Those menu items should also have a checkmark next to it to indicate the current 
setting.  That's been filed as bug:  
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23458

Comment 2

[laurel]

Just an FYI, here... return receipt is listed to be taken out of options.

Comment 3

[jglick]

Ah, that's right. Return receipts is out of NS6. I'll remove it from the menu 
spec. Thanks.

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

moving to future milestone.

Comment 5

[Håkan Waara]

Jennifer, is the statusbar really appropriate for this? If so, what text should
we display?

Platform -> All
OS -> All

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I think priority should be a popup menu to the right of the Subject field, as it 
was in 4.x. As for File-Copy-To, that can probably be available as a `header' in 
the addressing widget, can't it?

Comment 7

[jglick]

This is what was previously discussed:
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/compose/#Status

I agree the Status bar might not be the best place for this type of stuff.

The "Tabs" in the addressing area of 4.x didn't work.

>I think priority should be a popup menu to the right of the Subject field, as 
>it was in 4.x. As for File-Copy-To, that can probably be available as a  
>header' in the addressing widget, can't it?

In general, users rarely change the priority of messages, so we felt it didn't 
need such a prominant position.

FCC as an option in the addressing area was discussed. In fact, I believe, 3.x 
or so did it this way? Anyway, some mail folks were really against that 
implementation because it isn't truly the same as "To, Cc, Bcc, etc.". (I think 
it is a good place for it personally).

Comment 8

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

->varada

Comment 9

[jglick]

*** Bug 135248 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Joel Nelson (don't send email)]

Works on Windows XP, does not work on Mac OS X.

Comment 11

[Joel Nelson (don't send email)]

Partially works, that is...    the menu itself changes to reflect the format or
priority change but the message window itself doesn't update.  On Mac OS X the
menus don't even change.

Comment 12

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking all of varada's bugs.

Comment 13

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 14

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"