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== Message Views ==
Living in <tt>/mailnews/extensions/mailviews/</tt>, message views are a powerful tool to quickly filter messages of a particular folder, even virtual ones. With the advent of tags and their derived default views, though, bugs/deficiencies in the message view frontend implementation are more visible then ever, see  
[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201500 bug 201500] "Mailviews tracker" and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229537 bug 229537]
"Make mailviews really useful as newsviews".

=====Bugs I'd like to fix now to finish the label &rarr; tag transition:=====

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332802 Bug 332802]: View &rarr; Messages menu-item only visible when View (Mail Views) Toolbar is visible/present<br/>''This is a must-fix.''

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362990 bug 362990]: Customize Message Views dialog's selection should not affect View menu selection<br/>''I agree this should be fixed, including making this "dialog" non-modal. In fact, at least for SM, this dialog should be a preferences panel.''

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362567 bug 362567]: Customize Message Views modal dialog won't go away<br/>''Already has a simple fix, but will be irrelevant anyway if 362990 above is fixed.''

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199467 Bug 199467]: add ability to refresh current view<br/>''Easy, if we can just allow an already picked view be picked again, but this needs to be investigated (where would this cause problems, if at all?). See also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362741 Bug 362741]: Selecting folder with previous view unread, while viewing another unread folder, fails.''

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240921 Bug 240921]: MailViews don't apply to message changes<br/>''I don't think that automatically hiding eg. messages read in an unread view is a good thing, so 199467 fixed would make this WONTFIX.''

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362568 bug 362568]: make it possible for frequently-used custom views to appear on View menu<br/>''Consensus seems to lean towards having just one flat list.''

=====If there's a simple way to do it and if I have the time, I'd like to tackle these as well:=====

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116024 bug 116024]: mail views &amp; quick search leave the 3 pane window title as the message I selected

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135964 bug 135964]: View &rarr; Messages Change Deselects Displayed Message

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191199 bug 191199]: Message Views dialog should have Move Up/Down buttons<br/>''Most probably only as part of a pref panel.''

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191485 bug 191485]: Message view name should state &quot;Untitled View &lt;n&gt;&quot; by default

[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191801 bug 191801]: accesskeys don't work in Customize Message Views/Message View Setup