505180 - No user-discoverable way to open folders in new tabs in the foreground.

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Using the default settings, the only way we have to open folders in the foreground is via shift-middle click (or right-click shift-open in new tab).

This isn't very user discoverable - enabling double click would probably be the best way of making this work.

Note that there are some issues with double click that we'd need to make sure we didn't have: e.g. bug 35389.

Bug 467942 may also be related to fixing this.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Well, I think people are likely to want an UI pref to control default foreground/background tab opening anyway.

Comment 2

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I don't think we should block the release of TB3.0 for this issue.  I'm marking this wanted but I think we could aim this change for TB3.1 and still have a great 3.0 release.

Comment 3

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

the patch in bug 467942 has landed now.  does anyone have a patch to enable double click?

Comment 4

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

double click seems like a good route, resetting assignment since nothing is needed from me.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Double click is the current standard for springing folders open and
close. OTOH double click folder would mimic behavior of double click of messages. OTOH, regarding "This isn't very user discoverable", I don't think the average / novice user would think to double click a folder, and therefore doubt it will help much in educating users. Some additional hint needed?