Closed Bug 26233 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

UI: Need title tips for cropped items in thread pane

Categories

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

x86
Windows 95
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32157

People

(Reporter: sol, Assigned: dianesun)

References

Details

(Keywords: polish, Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-])

Mail needs title tips for items that are cropped in the thread pane. For example, currently, long message subjects in the thread pane are cropped at the end (using "..."). Depending on the number of column heads displayed in the thread pane, the message subject can be quite short, and the cropped portion is not enough for the user to determine the subject of the message. A title tip that displayed the full subject of the message would help a great deal. Steps to reproduce: 1. Launch Mail 2. Select a message from the inbox that has a long subject and is cropped (e.g., "This message has a very long subj...") 3. Mouse over the subject Expected result: Title tip displays the full subject of the message Actual result: No title tip
I don't know if this is a dup of bug 9676, or just dependent on it. I'll guess dependent, since we also have bug 17667 for the folder pane. Reassigning to putterman.
Assignee: phil → putterman
Depends on: 9676
Target Milestone: M16
QA Contact: lchiang → nbaca
Summary: Need title tips for cropped items in thread pane → UI: Need title tips for cropped items in thread pane
cc'ing hyatt. Do we have the ability to do this?
Target Milestone: M16 → M18
Well, I talked to hyatt and it looks like we aren't going to get this. One possibility as we talked about is to use tooltips for all subjects regardless of whether or not they are cropped. I mentioned this to some other people and they groaned. Anyway nominating nsbeta3 polish unless we decide to just skip this and let column resizing (which I think we will get) allow people to see their subjects.
Keywords: nsbeta3, polish
I'll add my groan -- "groan". Anyway, I think tooltips are a better workaround then column resizing. While the flashing (as I mouse over threads) would be annoying, I still think this would be preferable to column resizing every time I want to read a long subject.
*** Bug 39513 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Keywords: mail2
Keywords: mail2mail6
mail triage marking [nsbeta3-]
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-]
Reassign to myself per email with scottip.
Assignee: putterman → dianesun
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32157 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
mark verified duplicate.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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