Open Bug 500226 Opened 15 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Highlight last N (recent) folders moved into

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

x86
All
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: mozilla-bugs-2011.08, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060308 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.11 Build Identifier: I file my mail at the end of every month. Of the hundreds of folders I have, I usually only file into four or five different folders. An option to highlight the last N (N configurable by the user) folders that messages have been moved into would help. Thanks. Reproducible: Always
The folder pane basically already has this via its (nearly undiscoverable) "modes". If you click on the left and right arrows at the top-right of the folder pane, you can reach a "Recent" mode that only shows recently accessed folders. Alternatively, there is a "Favorite" mode if you right-click on the folders and mark them favorites. You can also directly access the modes via "View... Folders..." If you really want highlighting of recent folders rather than separate modes, I think that is best dealt with in an extension.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Thank you Andrew, I use the Recent Folders heavily. However, this request is not requesting that _only_ the last N folders be shown, rather that _all_ folders be shown but the last N be highlighted.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WORKSFORME → ---
Dotan, I hear you. see Bug 456444 - decorate folder in folder pane that is the current target/most recent for move again/copy again
I would agree that bug 456444 is a specific case of this bug, for N=1. I am tempted to mark this a dupe, however, I think that it would be better to mark that as a dupe to this bug as this bug is the more general case. What do you think?
I had given this some thought and concluded they stand on their own, because this bug might be fixed in a way that doesn't accomplish bug 456444, and vice versa. but they are closely related ... so setting dependency (weak depend.) and not an abuse of dependency field IMO :)
Depends on: 456444
OS: Linux → All
I've modified bug 456444 to current target/most recent move again/copy again folder name should be displayed in UI or decorate target folder in folder pane
Summary: Highlight last N folders moved into → Highlight last N (recent) folders moved into
Severity: normal → S3
Depends on: 1814450
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