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== Rich Status Bar == | == Rich Status Bar == | ||
This is made of two components. One is for informing the user about the over all online / offline status of Thunderbird. | |||
=== Online / Offline === | |||
The online / offline indicator for thunderbird is currently a small light bulb in the corner. While an icon only does save space it also can be difficult to understand it's meaning. | |||
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=== Status Bar === | |||
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+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | ||
| (8) Online | {v} Downloading ( | | (8) Online | {v} Downloading New Messages (1 min remaining) | | ||
+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | ||
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| (8) Online | {>} | | (8) Online | {>} Moved _Road Trip_ to _Archives_ | | ||
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Revision as of 00:46, 12 July 2008
Currently the status bar acts as one of the only notification systems to the user. However the status bar is a steady stream of temporal plain text messages. The messages are helpful if you understand what they are indicating, otherwise to most people they only convey general activity happening. In general the messages end up lacking meaning because there is too much information running by.
Relevant Bugs
- bug 123440 — Stop that annoying modal dialog when mail can't connect to the mail server from connection time out error
- bug 253426 — display activity in status bar
- bug 131965 — Actions of message filters should be displayed in the status bar
- bug 194949 — better status / progress UI feedback with junk mail
- bug 238972 — should have extensive/detailed download status window
- bug 227551 — No error message when connection to POP3 server lost
Rich Status Bar
This is made of two components. One is for informing the user about the over all online / offline status of Thunderbird.
Online / Offline
The online / offline indicator for thunderbird is currently a small light bulb in the corner. While an icon only does save space it also can be difficult to understand it's meaning.
+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | (8) Online | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | (3) Offline | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
Status Bar
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| (8) Online | {v} Downloading New Messages (1 min remaining) |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| (8) Online | {>} Moved _Road Trip_ to _Archives_ |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
Activity Manager
Many pieces borrowed from the design and implementations of the Download Manager. Essentially providing a journal of the download and user activity that Thunderbird processes.
+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | | ^ | | +---| |-----------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | |-----------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | |-----------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | | |-----------------------------------------------------------| | | +---| | | v | +-----------------------------------------------------------+---+ | [ Clear List ] [_Search...______] | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Synchronize _GMail_ messages 10:30am | | [================================================= ] (x) | | 1 minute remaining -- 146 of 148 _new messages_ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Synchronize _GMail_ messages yesterday | | Canceled (&) | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sent message _Road Trip Plans_ 10:30am | | to:joe@example.com, 1 attachment | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Moving _Road Trip Plans_ to _Archives_ 10:32am | | to:joe@example.com, 1 attachment | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
Much of this taken from the blog post Activity is the new Download