Hi All,

AccountCentral page, a single place from where user can perform various 
account related activities, is landed today as fix to bug 63251.

* Bug 63251 - http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63251 - Need 
to display something in Thread pane when Account is selected

Today (prior to the fix), in the messenger application, when the user 
selects account folder in the folder pane, threadpane and messagepane on 
the righthand side are just cleared. We just don't do anything. So, this 
place is now loaded with a page that has links to several activities 
like read, search and compose messages. Those links bring up the Wizards 
and Windows which perform those actions directly to the user. That page 
is the AccountCentral page. Say if the user selects a mail account named 
'foo' in the folderpane (left window), in place of emptied thread and 
message panes, AccountCentral page with links to Read, Search, Compose 
and other actions that are relevant to this account are shown. When user 
clicks on Read, the Inbox of the account 'foo' is opened and user can 
read mail from there. Similarly, if the Search link is clicked, Search 
window with folder 'foo' preselected for searching is opened. So, all 
the actions are account sensitive (or in the context of the account 
'foo'). You can see the (action) items in the page getting expanded and 
collapsed based on whether you are on mail or news account. Whenever 
user clicks on any of the message folders, the thread pane message panes 
(with splitter) will come back into the picture displaying the messages 
list and message body as chosen by the user.

The hope is that this page is going to provide great user experience 
with messenger application. It will be much easier now, for many users, 
to look at the properties of account or to create an account and to do 
several other things without having to find the corresponding action 
item from menus. Please visit the bug (60668) and have a look at the 
couple of screenshots posted to get picture of this page.

There are plans to expand this feature further and polish this page with 
appropriate styles.  A new bug 66376 
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66376) is opened improve 
this further. Please add yourself to the cc list and start contributing 
with ideas and feedback, if you are interested in this one.

Your questions and comments are welcome.

thanks
bhuvan


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