<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div><b># Where/How/Who</b></div><div><br></div><div><div>Generally, where is the right place to discuss
anything related to the User Interface (UI) of Thunderbird, to possibly submit suggestions/mockups in term of layout/styling changes? Creating a bug request as new feature/enhancement in the Thunderbird > Theme area? </div><div><br></div><div>Who shall I get in touch with to discuss such possible improvements and possibly get help to trial some of them out perhaps in some way?</div></div><div><br></div><div><b># Recipient input layout/style/features</b></div><div><br></div><div>Few years back there were a discussion here <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042780">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042780</a> about "Clean up styling for the new compose header UI styles (recipient input area) " see some mockups published in bug report here <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8507360">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8507360</a> and here <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8524840">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8524840</a> among others as well as discussion of allowing multiple recipients in To, Cc, Bcc fields... such styling/feature to be integrated in TB core...</div><div><br></div><div>Is it still in the pipeline as possible improvement for Thunderbird? What are the progress on this if any?</div><div><br></div><div><b># Slight UI layout revamp of the main window</b></div><div><br></div><div>I would like to suggest also to revamp slightly the main window user interface to regroup essential action buttons all in one smaller area (instead of apart here and there as currently) accessible at ALL time from anywhere/anytime while simplifying... as part of TB Core...</div><div><br></div><div>For example the tab area in main Thunderbird windows could look like this text mockup:</div><div><br></div><div><b>[TM]</b>[M][A][C][T][AS][S][Tab1][Tab2]........................................[TabX][-][□][X]<br></div><div>---^-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Main Content...</div><div><br></div><div>Where each <b>[letter/word]</b> represent an already existing <b>icon</b>/action button:</div><div><br></div><div><b>[TM]</b> = <b>Thunderbird Menu</b> icon (the three horizontal bar icon)</div><div><b>[M] </b>= <b>Mail </b>icon (that would act as the Mail tab currently name Home) - this tab would always be active like currently.</div><div><b>[A]</b> = <b>Addressbook </b>icon (click on it would open the addressbook window that eventually could be integrated as a tab as well at some point perhaps instead of a separate windows - Also Addresbook work could be replaced by <b>Contacts</b> instead to fit what most people use now a days)</div><div><b>[C]</b> = <b>Calendar</b> icon (that would act as calendar tab when activated by a click on it)</div><div><b>[T]</b> = <b>Tasks</b> icon (that would act as calendar tab when activated by a click on it)
</div><div><b>[AS]</b> = <b>Advanced Search</b> icon (click on it would open the Message Advance Search window that eventually could be integrated as a tab as well at some point perhaps instead of a separate windows). For this one another possible alternative could be to "Integrate 'Search Message...' window into the main UI + Add button for quick toggling between folder view and search view + Extend features" as described previously here <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1102861">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1102861</a> and mocked up here <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8532502">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8532502</a> and here <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8532503">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8532503</a></div><div><b>[S]</b> = <b>Settings</b> icon (that would act as Settings tab when activated by a click on it)
</div><div><b>[TabX] </b>=<b> Tabs</b></div><div><b>[-]</b> = <b>Minimise</b> Window icon</div><div><b>[□]</b> = <b>Maximise</b> Windows icon </div><div><b>[X]</b> = <b>Close</b> Thunderbird main window (ideally should be equivalent to File > Exit but that is another matter)</div><div><br></div><div><b>Alternative HTML Alt/Title</b> text could be used when <b>mouse over</b> on each icon to get a <b>description</b> of what each one represent. To keep it intuitively comprehensible for people what each icon means.</div><div><br></div><div>Just some suggestions that could be discussed elsewhere where ever more appropriate than on the mailing list...</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><br><div><br></div></div></div>