581740 - Favorite Folders list doesn't distinguish folders with the same name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 649989

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[Jonathan Kamens]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100720 Fedora/3.6.7-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100723 Fedora/3.1.1-1.fc13.jik Thunderbird/3.1.1

If you have two different IMAP folders with the same name, e.g., one of them at the top level of your mailbox and one of them as a subfolder of another folder, and you mark both of them as favorite folders, then they will be identical in the Favorite Folders listing, with no way to tell them apart. One possible solution might be to add tooltips to the folder names so that when you hover over them it tells you the complete path to the folder. Another possibility would be to preserve the folder paths in the Favorite Folders listing, i.e., format it the same as All Folders but with only the folders marked as favorites displayed.

A similar use case with the same end result: my IMAP account has access to multiple accounts on the server. The other accounts show up under "Other Users" in my All Folders list, and again, if I mark folders in those accounts as favorites, then it's impossible to distinguish them from any other folders with the same name in any account when I'm viewing my Favorite Folders list.

Come to think of it, the "Recent Folders" listing has the same problem.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Stefan Plewako [:stef]]

This may be fixed if patch from bug 649989 will land.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kamens]

Yes, with that fix the problem is gone, so dup'ing this ticket to that one.