536417 - separation line in the folders left panel

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[lool.lauris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 3.0

the possibility of having a separation line in the left panel (this one where are all the folders) should be very useful.
Especially when this one is quite long and when you have to move an email from inbox by example to a folder in the bottom of the list.
Thanks !

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can you provide a screenshot mockup of your idea ? I have issue visualizing what you are asking for.

Comment 2

[lool.lauris]

Attachment: A mock-up of my proposition

As requested by Ludovic, here attached a photomontage of what I have suggested.
Bye,
lool

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Bryan thoughts ?

Comment 4

[lool.lauris]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Bryan thoughts ?

Hi Ludovic,
Excuse me but I don't understand what you wanted to mean by "Bryan thoughts ?"
Bye,
lool

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I'm asking Bryan our UI lead his thoughts on the idea.

Comment 6

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

Thanks for the mockup, let me try to describe what I see you're doing.  Creating a separate "viewport" into the folder pane so you can have two areas of scroll within the folder pane area.  By viewport I mean scrollable areas which are divided by that separator.  This seems like it would help viewing a large number of folders though it may have some drawbacks for smaller folder sets.

It would make sense to prototype this idea as an extension.  We'll get to try it out and see what kind of unknown issues arise.

Comment 7

[lool.lauris]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Thanks for the mockup, let me try to describe what I see you're doing. 
> Creating a separate "viewport" into the folder pane so you can have two areas
> of scroll within the folder pane area.  By viewport I mean scrollable areas
> which are divided by that separator.  This seems like it would help viewing a
> large number of folders though it may have some drawbacks for smaller folder
> sets.
> 
> It would make sense to prototype this idea as an extension.  We'll get to try
> it out and see what kind of unknown issues arise.

Hi,

Thanks to take my proposition in consideration.
What you explained of what this separation line would be used for, is exactely what I thought about.
I hope this extension will arise !
Bye,
lool

Comment 8

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Is something like this what you mean (doesn't work in TB3): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4222

Comment 9

[lool.lauris]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Is something like this what you mean (doesn't work in TB3):
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4222

Hi Jim,

It's not exactely the same thing that I suggested but it replies a bit.
Following the link you gave, it's indicated that this extension is not available for THB 3 ... Do you know when it will ?

Bye,
lool

Comment 10

[lool.lauris]

Hi Everybody,

I made the above proposal 10 years ago. It was unsuccessful. I am therefore relaunching my request in the hope that it will succeed.

With kind regards,
lool