515743 - What's New page for Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 - (3.0b4)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Need What's New page to show what's new in the product and to message changes to the user.

This seems a great opportunity to show off the new search facility...

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

We should add an item about what Smart Folders is, and how to get back to All Folders mode. Rafael will probably want to wordsmith it, but something along the lines of:

We've added a new default folder pane mode, "Smart Folders". In this mode, special folders like Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Archives, etc are placed at the top of the folder pane, and the other folders are left under the account. If you have multiple accounts, the top-level special folders like Inbox show you the contents of all the top-level folders of that type combined into one view. The individual folders are shown under the "Smart" Inbox.

To get back to the old "All Folders" folder pane mode, you can either pick View | Folders | All, or click on the right arrow to the right of the "Smart Folders" label at the top of the folder pane.

Comment 2

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

http://trunk.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0b4/whatsnew/

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

the arrow keys don't cycle your folder pane mode. Clicking on the arrow icons at the top of the folder pane cycle between folder pane modes (e.g., get you from Smart Folders back to All Folders mode.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

"the customized toolbar feature." > "the customize toolbar feature." or "customize toolbar."

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I'm not sure it is worth highlight web cookie support - to really utilise it you need to have an extension installed to access web pages that require it - or to set up rss feed logins.

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

With comments 3 to 5 incorporated I think this will be good to go.

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I think we should change "New Mail Account Wizard" to "A new Mail Account Set-up Wizard" - I think it possibly makes it slightly clearer what we're actually talking about.

Comment 8

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Web page is now on production, beta 4 released. Hence this bug is fixed.