User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 Build Identifier: version 2 beta 2 (20070216) The folder views in their recent implementation are quite unusable for people with many folders sharing the same name, but placed under different parent folders, see the example: - folder 1 - folder A - folder B - folder C - folder 2 - folder A - folder B - folder C For example, if I make both 'folders A' my favorites, the context is lost and I don't know which one is which under the 'Favorite Folders' view. This is a serious shortcoming which makes the otherwise great feature unusable for me. Surely there are many ways to deal with this. We could add the parent folder name, although it could get quite long and complicated, e.g. "...folder 1 / folder A - Local Folders". And it wouldn't cover all the bases. Personally, I would like to see the same tree view as when using "All Folders". Yes, it would take more rows, with all parent folders being shown, but the context would be clear at all times. It's debatable though, whether this solution would be welcomed over the current implementation by the majority of users. Reproducible: Always

xref bug 351692

yes, important, but better adding some description to the folder display name, as suggested in bug 351692.

One possible way to show this from bug 397789: hovering over the shortname of the folder should show the full folder path

from bug 397789 comment 0 "When using a recent or favorite folder, e.g. in "Move To -> Recent" the full folder path, not just the folder name, should be in some way shown/indicated, e.g. in a tooltiptext. i.e. when hovering over subfolder1 in "move to -> recent" the tooltiptext would show "/folderB/subfolder1/subfolder1" (or similar) and it then can be distinguished from other subfolder1s."

Confirming RFE

I think this would actually be a tremendous boost in usability for the folder views!

I would like to see a (filtered) tree view there. I think it has already been suggested in some other bug.

Oh, and is there already an enhancement request to filter the full folder view based on a string typed in a search box?

none that i've ever seen - I don't see one here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=filter+folder&product=MailNews+Core&product=Thunderbird&component=Folder+and+Message+Lists&component=General&component=Mail+Window+Front+End&resolution=---&bug_severity=enhancement&chfieldto=Now

OK, bug 479767 ...

Is there any research work yet on "filtered treeviews", or some other examples we can look at? And more specific questions: Should the folders that are just there to complete the tree be gray? Should they be valid drag&drop targets?

Any work done on this? Is the target milestone still realistic?

(In reply to comment #13) > Any work done on this? Is the target milestone still realistic? Only if someone decides they want to do the work. Clearing milestone anyway as we don't tend to associate wanted bugs with specific milestones now (they are all wanted asap effectively).

This makes it possible to expand to see subfolders for folders in the Unread, Recent, and Favorite views. I can't think of much use case for hiding the possible children. If the folder have subfolders it's very likely you want to access a sub folder too while accessing the parent, and if you don't, this only adds the expander so that you can if you will. I know i need it constantly, which is why i don't use the folder modes much.

Gah, the final version.

What about imap servers where all folders are sub-folders of the Inbox? I think a perhaps better way of doing this would be to do hierarchy in the folder pane modes, but only populate it with folders that should be in the view.

Comment on attachment 395901 [details] [diff] [review] proposed fix Hm yeah that could also group the folders normally. I'll see what i can do.

This feature would be very useful.

This bug as filed (hierarchy in the folder views) was actually fixed by bug 533775 for Favorites and Unread view. Please reopen if there is something missing.