Closed Bug 90694 Opened 24 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Mail Compose: Simplify the Formatting Toolbar

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(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: jglick, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: polish)

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Mail Compose: Formatting Toolbar. Currently this toolbar has 15 items on it. It makes the window look complicated and cluttered. It also makes the window larger horizontally by default. I would like to see some of the less commonly used formatting items removed from this toolbar to make it less overwhelming and cleaner looking. Users more often stick to basic text formatting, if any, while composing a mail message. More complex formatting is most often used for full blow html documents. The Formatting Toolbar should be limited to only the most basic and commonly used items. Additional functionality is easily accessible from the Formatting menu for when users want to add more involved formatting. I would like to see removed: Indent In, Indent Out, and Text Alignment for starters. Open to other suggestions.
Attached image Current Compose window
Attached image Proposed Compose window
Keywords: polish
combine bullet number list and indent outdent into a single thing? any reason you killed the pop from smily? fwiw i really like acrobat reader 5's toolbar system, but that won't happen anytime soon (try it...).
I agree that indents aren't used very often, but I think text alignment is. Also, why aren't the bullet list and numbered list buttons combined (a drop-down menu would be used to select between the two - this would also make it easier to add items such as lists with letters instead of numbers or Roman numerals).
reassign qa contact
QA Contact: sheelar → nbaca
-->varada
Assignee: ducarroz → varada
QA Contact: nbaca → olgam
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
taking all of varada's bugs.
Assignee: varada → sspitzer
Product: MailNews → Core
Assignee: sspitzer → nobody
Severity: normal → enhancement
QA Contact: olgam
QA Contact: composition
Product: Core → MailNews Core
I think this is wontfix. Even webmails usually have the alignments nowadays and we can't be worse than that if the user happens to want it. ->WONTFIX
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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