541643 - Folder Pane UI - Make expansion triangle larger/less sensitive

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 811425

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[Hermann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 GTB6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.1

Hi, This is more a usability feature request than a bug, but I still hope that this is the right place to post it. 

When I would like to open my subfolder structure I need to click on the triangle in front of the subfolder. This triangle gets blue once I'm with the mouse in the line of the subfolder. But hitting exactly the triangle is quite difficult as this is quite small. So increasing the area would help me to avoid clicking on the wrong place, but even more important would be that this triangle changes color when the mouse click would open the subfolder instead of changing the active view to this folder. 
I would have a picture for better explanation, but I have not found a way to add a screenshot in here. 




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
clicking exactly on the triangle to open a subfolder vs. clicking slightly beside.

Comment 1

[Hermann]

Hi, I just compared the behaviour with the behaviour of the windows explorer in Win7. 
THe style looks quite similar, but the triangle gets only blue if the subfolder is opened, and if you click e. g. in front of the triangle nothing happens in the explorer while in thunderbird the main view changes to the subfolder.

I think an adjustement to the Windows explorer behaviour would improve the usability. 

thanks

Hermann

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #0)

> I would have a picture for better explanation, but I have not found a way to
> add a screenshot in here. 

Use the add attchment link on this page.

Comment 3

[Hermann]

Attachment: shows different places where to click to open subfolder vs. change active folder

There are two screenshots in where to click to see the different behavior. There is no visual difference that this two (basically even three) different clicks!

Thanks for taking a look into this

Comment 4

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Duping forward because the other bug has more info.