819925 - Add "Forward As >" to msg context menu; offer Message and View menu as optional items for Mail Toolbar customization

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 508250

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[Kelly Caudill]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.95 Safari/537.11

Steps to reproduce:

I like the new layout. Most of what is now on the new FF-style Application menu are things I use infrequently and so having them all condensed into that one button is great, except the Message menu. I occasionally use:

 - Forward As
 - Move To


 


Actual results:

The redesign of the menus is great


Expected results:

It would be greater if I could put the Message (and maybe the View ) menu items on the Mail Toolbar.
Or if they were available to be put on the context menu of the message, along with Reply, Forward, Delete, etc, that would be fine.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Kelly Caudill from comment #0)

> Steps to reproduce:
> I like the new layout. Most of what is now on the new FF-style Application
> menu are things I use infrequently and so having them all condensed into
> that one button is great

:)

> except the Message menu. I occasionally use:
> 
>  - Forward As
>  - Move To
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> It would be greater if I could put the Message (and maybe the View ) menu
> items on the Mail Toolbar.
> Or if they were available to be put on the context menu of the message,
> along with Reply, Forward, Delete, etc, that would be fine.

Kelly, thanks for your appreciation and proposal.

"Move To" is already in the context menu of both single and multiple message selection (so that part of your request is invalid).

Missing "Forward As" is the menu variant of bug 508250 which is currently stalled because the best UI is still being discussed (so that part of your request is a duplicate -> I'll resolve this accordingly).

Offering just the message menu and view menu in the customization palette of Mail toolbar appears random and ux-inconsistent (invalid/wontfix).

Offering *all* menus in the customization palette of Mail toolbar might be useful for some users, but it would require developer work for little benefit. Users can already add individual commands on the toolbar (right-click on toolbar > customize), and they can show the entire main menu if required (even temporarily using Alt or F10). That RFE would require a new bug with a clearer description (not this bug), but imo it looks like an addon candidate for now because we don't have the manpower to do it. So it would still be a wontfix candidate.

We might consider new RFE to add "Move to" / "Copy to" buttons to Mail toolbar customization, similar to Bug 816341 for "Move/Copy again".

Comment 2

[Kelly Caudill]

Thanks. My bad. I totally missed that "context menu" means right-click on message line in the list of messages. I see everything I want there (except Forward as- bug 508250).
thanks/sorry for the spurious interrupt.

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Kelly Caudill from comment #2)
> Thanks. My bad. I totally missed that "context menu" means right-click on
> message line in the list of messages.

Indeed. To see the context menu of a single message, you can also right-click anywhere in the *message body*, regardless if you are viewing the message in preview, in its own tab, or in its own window.
On windows keyboards, you can also press the context menu key (to the right of space bar) when you have one or more messages selected, or Shift+F10.

> thanks/sorry for the spurious interrupt.

Welcome & no problem. You've actually helped to revive bug 508250 ;)

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Richard, pls have a look at comment 0 to see how users appreciate your new AppMenu (ignore the request, we've already sorted that). I must admit I am also starting to like it somehow in spite of my initial scepticism. :)