Appearance Panel - Layout, Message List, Card View, Table View, Sorting and Threading settings

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  • Creator: Roland Tanglao
  • Comment: added card or table view WIP, do not localize please :-) For discussion please leave comments in https://github.com/thunderbird/knowledgebase-issues/issues/79
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This article describes the Appearance panel (Thunderbird 140 and newer) which can be found at Thunderbird app menu > Settings > Appearance. It allows you to toggle your message list layout between Card and Table view, adjust your Cards view, and set your default folder sorting order and threading options.

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1. Card or Table view

Card view

  • Click Card view to select Card view and then
    • Click 2 rows The first row has the sender's display name (not the actual email address), time and at the top right the Message Actions menu, (also known as the kebab menu because the three vertical dots resemble a kebab). The second row displays the subject.
    • OR 3 rows to get a 3rd row. which adds information about the message thread (if there is more than one message in that thread), tags and starred status.

Table view

  • Click Table view to select Table view and then
    • Tick ✓ allow horizontal scroll to enable horizontal scrolling for wide content like tables.


2. Default Threading: Unthreaded, Threaded or Grouped by Sort

3. Default Sort field: Date, Subject, From, Recipient, etc

4. Select folders to apply Default Sort field to