523254 - possibly fallback to always showing reply to sender as default

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect, P1)

Description

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

By release time we need to have either gotten bug 248681 into a state we are comfortable with for landing in rc1 or we should turn on the reply to sender button by default.

Original designs of the header buttons called for bug 248681, which was never put on priority to fix, and now we are receiving the kind of expected feedback that comes with this change to defaulting to public replies instead of private.

The code change is a simple boolean pref switch, this bug is just about remembering to do that.  Likely this should block and possibly depend on bug 248681

Comment 1

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

Attachment: toggle reply_sender button pref to on

Here's the patch to make this happen

Comment 2

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

I'm setting this as blocking seeing as the UI for bug 248681 will not land for TB3.0 and this is our fallback.

Comment 3

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

Comment on attachment 408902 [details] [diff] [review]
toggle reply_sender button pref to on

Mark, can you review this?

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Checked in:
http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/32734f9b4f15
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-1.9.1/rev/b38d28cdb52a

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

This change makes bug 520249 considerably worse, sometimes leaving
only 2 characters of the "From" (Author), due to the extra button. I don't think the affected users will find or even look for the context menu entry.