544181 - Date/Time should be displayed with the other standard headers in the message

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, enhancement)

Description

[mad.engineer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1

Currently, when you open a new message in a tab/window the Date/Time is displayed in the very right-hand side under the Reply/Reply All... buttons. Rest of the headers (from:, to:, cc:...) are on the left-hand side the way it should be. I don't know what is the logic behind displaying the Date/Time like this, but this is a bad UI design and should be fixed. See attached screen shot.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Date/Time is displayed in the very right-hand side column

Expected Results:  
Date/Time should be displayed with the other standard message headers (from:, to:, cc: etc)

See attached screen shot for details.

Comment 1

[mad.engineer]

Attachment: This is how it is displayed currently

Comment 2

[mad.engineer]

Attachment: This is the way it should be

Comment 3

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

I _think_ this may be a DUP of another bug.  This was intentional design, and part of the rationale was to save vertical space, given all the other crazy constraints that XUL imposes on us.  

I don't know exactly what the current UX thinking here is, but I don't think we'd hold 3.1 for this change, if it were the last bug standing, so marking blocking-.  clarkbw, feel free to override, if I'm wrong about that.

Comment 4

[Blake Winton (:bwinton) (:☕️)]

I'm actually going to take Dan's comments a step further and say that we have done this intentionally, and so wouldn't take a change to fix it.

(It's a pity there's not a "Resolved Intentional" flag, but that's what I mean in this case by the unfriendly "WONTFIX".)

Thanks,
Blake.