Thunderbird:UX/Priorities/3.1

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This page reflects where Mozilla Messaging is focusing its development energy during the Thunderbird 3.1 time frame. Note that the top priority for 3.1 is to provide a softer landing pad for Tb2 users so that we can offer a prompted major update. The things on this list that contribute to that are required for that are blockers, the rest are not.

If you have feedback on this list itself, please add it to the Discussion page.

Folks interested in participating in any of this work are encouraged to review and volunteer on the corresponding bugs (which will soon be) linked from this page.

Tabs

Reorder tabs bug 468808
Open new tabs beside parent tab
Return to parent tab after closing child tab bug 508776
Closing Thunderbird w/ multiple tabs bug 527434
Unread count for folders/searches in tab titles bug 488551
Extensions installation (Sort of bug 526733)
Favicons bug 516777

Search

Quick Search / Full Search
- Separate out Quick Search as a different entity from the Full Search - asuth has a start
Search Results
Improve the results layout
- Show folder message is in, allow people to open the folder with the message highlighted
- Improve the attachments display
- Show and highlight "match text" in message text display
Improve changing the search terms
- involves
- multiple search terms

Look & Feel

"new" messages in folders needs more than just a color bug 533695
- color:Highlight on new is incorrect bug 523972
Mac
- Lighten up theme colors - we are very dark right now
- Use or match system folder icons
Windows
- Improve non-a11y theme
Linux
- ???

Smart Folders

Improve the Smart Folders transition through the Migration Asst
Rename to "Unified Folders"
Possibly make the default for new users only, upgrading users will see it as part of the migration assistant
Drop down chooser for more obvious way to change mode ???

Account Setup Wizard

Improve the look
Support out going SMTP user names bug 534604
Easily change from IMAP to POP
Stop button not working quickly enough

One-click Address Book

Swap out the old Address Book context menu with our new one-click dialog (dialog needs improvements)
Choose which address book to save to in the dialog bug 456167

Mac Dock Icon (Unread/New) Count

Need a way for people to get "new" count instead of unread, via extension or pref bug 518828

Attachment Reminder

Improve the text of the notification bar to be less "geeky"

Activity Manager

Handle the "empty" case where there hasn't been activity yet
POP message activity

Migration Assistant

Possibly a dialog that pops up on first run of Thunderbird
Videos explaining different areas
Less text in the migration assistant and more pictures
Direct links to add-ons which solve some of the issues

Columns in Folder Pane

Offer direct link to Add-on from the Migration assistant page on this
Detect that a person had this turned on and offer to install the add-on

Compact Header

Better Migration assistant option for finding header add-ons
Offer direct link to the Compact Header extension
- Possibly detect the "collapsed" header mode from upgrade and offer the install in another dialog

AutoSync default

Improve the migration assistant experience for this feature
- Display the amount of space that will be taken when this is turned on
Possibly allow people to turn this on but limit the space used to a certain amount
- (also needed for netbooks support)
Always sync / collect addresses from the sent folder -

Gloda perf for big mail stores

have a pref to disable indexing on certain folders, probably in the folder properties
display a summary of the amount of space the gloda index is taking
improve the search experience when gloda is turned off

Message Header

Fix the "more" for email addresses
Possibly finish the customize header buttons toolbar