561597 - Make all/normal headers showing toggleable dynamically

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Ryan Li]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100421 Minefield/3.7a5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100424 Shredder/3.2a1pre

Thunderbird provides the option whether to show all/normal message headers.
However, when all headers are displayed, the information bar becomes way too long, and takes a large amount of space, having a bad effect on daily use.
There is a solution to eliminate this option and provide better usability: use an expander (something like Gtk::Expander) in the headers, and show `normal' headers by default. so that when the user wants to view all headers, he/she could just click the expander.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ryan Li]

Attachment: A screenshot of the headers when all are shown.

This effectively prevents message content to be shown. Notice the scroll bar on the right.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I'm pretty sure their an extension that does that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/13564

Comment 3

[Ryan Li]

But this is an add-on, not built-in functionality. And it doesn't work well under GNOME with 3.2a1pre, looks ugly.
So what's the reason for not having this feature built-in?