871693 - Notification bars of different kinds should have different background colors

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 562048

(Thunderbird :: Theme, enhancement)

Description

[Seungbeom Kim]

We have at least two kinds of notification bars:
(1) "To protect your privacy, Thunderbird has blocked remote content in this message. [Show Remote Content]"
(2) "Thunderbird thinks this message is junk mail. [Not Junk]"
(3) "This message may be a scam. [Ignore Warning]" (Is this still present?)

These have the same layout and the same background color. When you're used to seeing lots of (1) and pressing the [Show Remote Content] button, there's a danger of pressing [Not Junk] on a junk mail or [Ignore Warning] on a scam by mistake before noticing the bar was actually (2) or (3).

Therefore, I suggest that the bars should have different background colors. A reddish color on (2) to give a bigger sense of a warning and to match the red junk icon in the thread pane is probably a good idea. Similarly for (3).

This is maybe configurable just through the chrome CSS, but I'm not sure about that.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Correct, all information bars are of class="msgNotificationBar" and thus share a common background-color: InfoBackground; definition, but in addition they have individual identifiers. Thus, one could distinguish, e.g., id="junkBar" from id="remoteContentBar" and assign specific colors to each type of notification.

Comment 2

[Seungbeom Kim]

Thanks for the info. I do see four id's associated with class="msgNotificationBar": {"phishingBar", "junkBar", "remoteContentBar", "mdnBar"}, in comm-central/mail/base/content/mailWindowOverlay.xul. I have successfully modified my userChrome.css to achieve what is described above so that I can experiment with the effects.

Still, I think users can benefit from new *default* colors that sensibly distinguish different kinds of notification bars.

Comment 3

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

Yep, this could be updated. Taking the bug...

Comment 4

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

Side note, there are different colors now, however I don't find them to be very aggressive (For example the junk one). Plus the styling is a little dated.

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Bug 562048 will fix this...

Comment 6

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

Alright then. Duping.