We received lot of suggestions while implementing this feature. We accommodated as much as we could while fixing bug 63251 and this bug is to polish that page further and improve it based on feedback we receive. Here are couple of things that are already in the list : * News page should have Subscribe Item * Header 'Email' and items below it need to be modified appropriately for news accounts. * Think about option #9 (http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/proposals/AccountLevel.html) from the feedback we receive. * Anykind of UI polishes (image icons, background images and font styles etc) Please feel free to extend the above list. Adding all people from cc list of bug 63251.

Adding nsbeta1 keyword.

Didn't we want to use the same labels for the menu / toolbar buttons and the text in the Account page? E.g. "New Msg" vs. "Compose".

*** Bug 66567 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

- The spec states "Compose a new Email message" but it now states "Compose a new message". I like the way it looks now. Including "Email" in the statement seems redundant. - The spec states "View settings for this account" but it now states "View Settings for this account". The "S" in Settings should be lower case.

marking nsbeta1+ and moving to mozilla0.9

OK, some rough ideas as attachments to follow. Note these are just for ideas only. "Netscape 6 Mail" would be "Mozilla Mail". And the Netscape logo would be replaced with the Mozilla logo as appropriate.

Jennifer, those look great, can you mock one up with the help text in the right portion of the window?

I would vote for something non-Netscape specific (this is still Mozilla), so I like "One" or "Four" best.

I like #4 the best of these because it blends into the area where there's actually text. Have you tried moving it more center in the page? Does it ever become hard to see the text?

> Mozilla Mail IIRC, we dicided on "Mozilla Mailnews" for now (just "Mail" appearing the chrome is a bug). > I would vote for something non-Netscape specific (this is still Mozilla) Jen said that the Netscape logo will be replaced with the Mozilla logo. However, I'd like to see something without a logo for Mozilla, since otherwise, distributors *have* to care about one more logo to replace. They *can* still do so, if they want to. Even apart from that, I happen to like 1 and 4 best.

I think the idea was that it would say Mozilla Mail in a mail account and Mozilla News in a news account.

jglick, are these mock ups, or actual implementations? do how big are actually images (in kb) and does having that image slow down the displaying of the account central page?

Currently these are just mockups. We'll need to figure out what size and format we'll need the background image to be to work best. Anything about these can be changed. The size of the image, the opacity, the location. If we get a consensus for a certain style, we can experiment with it. Seems like folks like the non-logo specific approach. We can do a non-logo specific one that is bigger/smaller, repeated, tiled etc. p.s. for credit purposes, Gail White created most of these ideas originally (but she doesn't have a bugzilla acct yet). ;-)

I agree with Ben wrt the ability to customize the graphic. For distribution, this is critical. So, we need to make sure this graphic, whatever is decided, can be skinned/themed. Is this possible? For branding, on behalf of the commercial build, either #2 or #3 are best. #3 then seems the safest wrt differing screen sizes/resolutions. There is no danger with the "multiple" images in them looking awkward when cut off by a small screen.

Also, FWIW, I am using a laptop (DELL) and the images are not being displyed well. I had to tilt my screen to a very sharp angle to see the images. I thought I was going crazy when, at first, I didn't see any differences between any of the screen shots! :-)

> We can do a non-logo specific one that is bigger/smaller, repeated, tiled etc. I like them as they are - one large image with just lines. Size is not that important to me, though. > So, we need to make sure this graphic, whatever is decided, > can be skinned/themed. Is this possible? I assumed so. > the safest wrt differing screen sizes/resolutions. There is no danger > with the "multiple" images in them looking awkward when cut off by a small > screen. Very valid point. I think, we can make Gecko scale the image, so that it always fills all (or 70$ or whatever) of the background. (I know that this is possible, if nothing else, then with absolute positioning - I'm wondering about performance, but I don't think, this is a problem.)

cc'ing Marlon.

r=gayatrib

sr=sspitzer (that code is only executed accounts with an inbox, right?)

Yes. the request comes from the AccountCentral and we display ReadMessages item only to such servers. Thanks for reviews.

improvement patch#1 landed. Thanks for reviews.

What do we have left on this bug? Jennifer, do you know if we are going to get the background image? Bhuvan, do you know if it's going to be possible to do this? I remember you mentioning to me that this may not work out.

Marlon is working on the background for this. Marlon, any eta?

Yes, I am working on this one. ETA will be between 1-2 weeks with my current schedule.

It is possible to put the background images. I tried with stack tags first. But css has an easier alternative (thanks to hewitt). So, I used image #1 posted by Jennifer and created a background jpeg. Will post the the way it looks like now after the changes I did to msgAccountCentral.css to display the background image. So, once we get the right images from marlon, it should be easy to effect those background images on AccountCentral.

do you think we'll get a background image or should we push this off to 0.9.2?

Marlon, your last entry on 3/27: "Yes, I am working on this one. ETA will be between 1-2 weeks with my current schedule." How are you doing on this, and are you going to use the image that Gail came up with, or are you creating a new one?

it would help if we could push this to 0.9.2

moving to 0.9.2

moving to 0.9.3

moving to 0.9.4

Mail news triage meeting --> .9.5. We'll takle improving account central after eMojo.

adding bug 90373 as dependency (alternate 3-pane layout makes the layout jump when showing account central) This would improve account central a lot for me

moving to 0.9.6

really moving to 0.9.6

moving to 0.9.7

What still needs to be done with this bug? Marlon, do you consider this bug closed with the icons/background work you previously did or is there more to come? Kevin, what are you expecting from this bug?

For mozilla, we can close this. I'll open a new bug for commercial.

the only thing remaining that i intend to do is make sure that the icons become active (not just the text), and, design a background image. we can track that in the new bug

Yes. It was kept open to put a background image on accountcentral page. Making icons active as suggested by Marlon will be nice. We are going have a background image for Mozilla also..right ? Then, the new bug can stay in bugzilla itlsef. Marking this one fixed.

Verified Fixed.