Closed Bug 24176 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Mail columns don't look good by default

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 44669

People

(Reporter: beard, Assigned: scottputterman)

Details

(Keywords: polish)

The initial impression of mail/news is going to be determined by the initial state of the UI. It should be as simple as possible, and everything should be readable. Our current default configuration is terrible, there are too many columns and they aren't all readable. Plus we use icons in some of the columns that are essentially meaningless. We should start with a simple set up, say Unread Date From Subject Advanced users can turn on more columns. We should also make sure they right widths for these columns are chosen for ease of use and readability.
Component: UE/UI → Front End
Product: Browser → MailNews
QA Contact: elig → lchiang
I believe this belongs in MailNews, not Browser; reassigning accordingly.
yes this is mailnews bug. Also this one is talking about a couple of UI issues together. It should be break up into different bugs. reassign to jglick to see whether these are mostly known problem ( I think so, at least).
Assignee: shuang → jglick
Yes, agreed, we need better defaults. 4.5+ default columns (I don't remember 4.0x) were Subject, Unread, Sender, Date, Priority. Adding polish keyword too.
Keywords: polish
I have in the spec: http://gooey/client/5.0/specs/mail/messengermessenger.html#Thread Default columns and order are as follows: Thread, Subject, Presence Icon (i believe this one is out for beta 1, just like the AB), Sender or Recipient (depending on folder selected), Date, Column Widget (control to change what columns are displayed). If we want to add "Unread" (this is the green diamond column, correct?) and "Priority" also, that is probably fine, but brings us up to 7 default columns.
Assignee: jglick → phil
I think the spec'd behavior is fine. Let's make Unread and Priority non-default columns. Reassigning to putterman. Would like to have this for B1 to get feedback, but wouldn't hold for it.
Assignee: phil → putterman
Target Milestone: M14
Target Milestone: M14 → M18
Luis - can you create a new profile and access mail? In the 3-pane mail window, can you see what the default columns are? (ie. date, subject). Pls list your findings here for Windows. Thanks.
QA Contact: lchiang → nbaca
Luis - no longer need to do anything on this bug. I think it's the same as http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44669. The other bug has the more up-to-date items from the spec so I'll mark this a dup of that one even though this bug report came first. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44669 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified duplicate.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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