84641 - Merge "Read" and "Status" to one intuitive Icon

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22112

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Andre Ulrich]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i586)
BuildID:    20010608

There are several fields in the Mail pane which should be, in favour to
oversight reasons, merged. Especially the status field should be iconified in
order to have a better overview. Then you don´t need a read field anymore,
because you can easily see which status your mail has.
For instance Kmail displays arrows to signalize which status the message has.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.this is a feature request
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Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Then you don´t need a read field anymore,
> because you can easily see which status your mail has.

The real benefit to the Read column is not showing the status, since the entry 
is normally shown bold when Unread.  The benefit is being able to click in the 
column to toggle between Read and Unread without having to load the message; and 
also the ability to quickly sort by Read/Unread status.

(Same for Flag and Junk; note that Flag is now searchable under Status, but the 
Status column does not display Flagged.)


> For instance Kmail displays arrows to signalize which status the message has.

The icon in the Subject column already has support for this feature, and some 
themes (e.g. Pinball) make use of it.  Bug 22112 is about providing appropriate 
icons for the Classic and Modern themes.  However, sorting by this status 
requires either showing the Status column or using the menu.

Thunderbird bug 227928 (WontFix) requested changing the Status column to 
graphical icons rather than text.  Is that the purpose of this rfe, or is it a 
dupe of 22112?

Comment 2

[Andre Ulrich]

(In reply to comment #1)
Wow, I can hardly remember that I filled such a bug almost 4 years ago :-)

> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Then you don´t need a read field anymore,
> > because you can easily see which status your mail has.
> 
> The real benefit to the Read column is not showing the status, since the entry 
> is normally shown bold when Unread.  The benefit is being able to click in the 
> column to toggle between Read and Unread without having to load the message; and 
> also the ability to quickly sort by Read/Unread status.
> 
> (Same for Flag and Junk; note that Flag is now searchable under Status, but the 
> Status column does not display Flagged.)

> > For instance Kmail displays arrows to signalize which status the message has.
> 
> The icon in the Subject column already has support for this feature, and some 
> themes (e.g. Pinball) make use of it.  Bug 22112 is about providing appropriate 
> icons for the Classic and Modern themes.  However, sorting by this status 
> requires either showing the Status column or using the menu.
I think I had such an enhancement in mind like Bug 22112 implemented now.

> Thunderbird bug 227928 (WontFix) requested changing the Status column to 
> graphical icons rather than text.  Is that the purpose of this rfe, or is it a 
> dupe of 22112?
It seems that this is now a dupe of Bug 22112. Thanks Mike!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22112 ***