How to automatically display entire Subject for the mail at the cursor?
Hi!
There is a feature I miss very much in Thunderbird: That Thunderbird automatically displays the entire Subject:-line (in a 'bubble') for the mail that the cursor is on in the inbox (or other folders), so I don't have to move the mouse to the same line for it to pop up! Has anyone implemented that in an add-on (or have I overlooked an option)? Thank you very much!!
Best regards, Henrik R.
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This is what my Thunderbird looks like. Try restarting with add-ons disabled from the help menu and see if you have an add-on that is causing the tooltip to not appear.
Matt sagde
No. Disabling add-ons didn't change anything. I still only get to see the whole subject of the message where the mouse is and not on the message selected by the cursor.
The standard in all GUIs I have used is for tooltips to follow the mouse cursor, not the insertion cursor, nor attach to the control with input focus.
The behaviour you describe is inconsistent with normal practice. Thunderbird treats these subject line expansions as tooltips, so it is handling them in a manner consistent with working standards.
I don't see a need for your "bubble"; when I select a message it appears in the Message Pane beneath the Thread Pane where I can see its complete subject line, the date, and the correspondents.
Some users do seem to think that the Message Pane represents some form of risk, but then they use instead a navigation mode using key presses to move to the next message, where you can't see where you're going or what you will open. This seems to me to be illogical.
Zenos sagde
I don't see a need for your "bubble"; when I select a message it appears in the Message Pane beneath the Thread Pane where I can see its complete subject line, the date, and the correspondents.
OK. But that marks the messages as read, although I have only looked at their headings. So it doesn't really solve the problem.
Gewysig op deur Henrik R.