Marshall wrote:
>
> When the user clicks get mail, do other people think it should open a
> window similar to a download window? After all, it is downloading.
Well, we don't open a progress window when updating the browser window
(loading a Web page). So I don't think it would really make sense to
open a progress window when updating the three-pane window (loading messages).
With current new window performance
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49141>, the opening and
closing of the window would at least double the time it takes me to
check for new mail if I have no messages.
> It would also be nice to have the "There are no new messages" message
> stay up a wee bit longer. When it's in the status bar sometimes I
> have to click get mail before I can actually see that status bar
> message.
>...
See `[RFE] User notification of "no new mail"'
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51181>, which suggests
showing a dialog if there are no new messages.
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla user interface QA
