74071 - priority color should be for all text columns

Status: CLOSED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

in the thread pane, if a message has a priority other than normal we should
change the color of all the columns, like 4.x did.

we current change the color of only the priority column.

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

fixed.

Comment 2

[jglick]

Sorry for joining this one late. Only noticed this feature recently.  

Personally I don't like using color for priority (especially the whole row) 
because:

The Sender gets to determine what is high/low priority not the recipient.
Often what is high/low priority to the sender, is not high/low priority to
the recipient, and then these messages (that may not be important to the
recipient) stand out in the user's Thread Pane and there is no way for the
recipient to change them.  Spam sent as high priority will stand out.

With just the Priority column colored, the user can at least choose to ignore 
this feature by now viewing the Priority column. If the whole row is colored, 
the user has no choice.

Going farther, I would like to see the ability to use color for messages, but I 
would like to see it used for something that is under the Recipient's control 
instead of the Sender's.  Allowing the user to use color as a way to organize 
what THEY think is important would be a much nicer feature.   Dealing with and
attempting to organize the huge quantities of mail some users get today, is
a big issue. And I would rather give the control of marking messages with
color to the recipient instead of the sender.  Similar to the "Flag"
feature, users would be able to use color to prioritize their own Inboxes.
Similar to the Mac or Eudora Mail "Labels", users would have the ability to
categorize/organized by color.

Thoughts?

Comment 3

[kmurray1115]

Jen, I agree. Control from the recipient perspective is the goal. BTW, Seth, did
4.x change *all* the columns? I've never seen that.

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

I thought 4.x mac did.  I don't have it here to test.

It's easy to change back, log a bug on me and I'll do it.

as far as labels, if we ever get cycles to improving filters, we could make a
new filter action to "set all messages from this person this color".

log an rfe bug on that idea.

Comment 5

[jglick]

yes, 4.x Mac did all the columns.

Yeah, using color as a filter action would be part of this. I think people would 
like it.

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

I would also like to see it only be for the column (I actually brought this to
jglick's attention without realizing that this bug existed).  I don't like
someone else choosing the color of my thread pane headers. 

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

log them new bugs on, and I'll whip up a fix.

Comment 8

[jglick]

81085 is for the reversal. thanks seth.

Comment 9

[scottputterman]

Closing because this was fixed but we decided to take it out.