456618 - Move #smime Message Security popup display to the right

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Ronald Killmer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16
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Currently the Message Security popup opens at top-left of main window.  With the revisions to expanded header bar and it's new buttons this takes a big mouse move from the #smime box Icon to close the popup.

I am attaching a Screen Shot of Shredder 09/22 build taken while viewing a signed mail item. If the left edge of the popup was on the vertical center line it's Close X would be a much shorter mouse move.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:

Comment 1

[Ronald Killmer]

Attachment: Message Security popup screenshot

Comment 2

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I did an example of this earlier.
http://clarkbw.net/designs/msg-reader/std-msg-reader-w-smime.html

However that hasn't been adapted to the new header view layout style.  It should be in the header at the top.  However I think the display and interaction in the html page are correct.

Using just text messages like the following I think we can be much more informative than the signature icon is.

"This message was _signed_ by $SIGNER"                             (i)
"This message was _encrypted_ by $SIGNER"                          (i)
"This message was _signed_and_encrypted_ by $SIGNER"               (i)

= I believe there are questions about messages that are encrypted and yet not signed, I don't know if we support that or not =

Here's a layout for the signature information.
.---------------------------------------------------------.
|   signed by      Bryan Clark                            |
|   email address  [e-mail]                    |
|   issued by      Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA    |
|                                                         |
|                  ( View Full Certificate )          (^) |
'---------------------------------------------------------'

We'll possibly need an encryption layout and a layout for encryption + signed.

Comment 3

[Ronald Killmer]

In current Tb 2.0 I deal with the position of the Signed icon and Edit Draft button with this CSS:
   #smimeBox > spacer { display: none !important; }
   #editMessageBox > spacer { display: none !important; }

Hiding the spacers above and below the Icon/Button so they rise to the top of there respective V-boxes.

The deck with ID: msgNotificationBar would be an alternate method of displaying the Signed info in a H-box
 .____________________________________________________________________________.
 | Signed by:  Ron K.  Address: [e-mail] Issued by: Freemail CA       X |
 '----------------------------------------------------------------------------'

In fact, I did not know the Edit Draft button existed untill I ran Litmus tests for the 3.0a2 preview. I have used Tb for 5 years and found a hidden feature.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Why the line for email? And not:
 signed by   Bryan Clark <[e-mail]>

I don't think you can remove the "Certificate" from "Certificate issued by". It just becomes too unclear what is issued.

Comment 5

[Ronald Killmer]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I don't think you can remove the "Certificate" from "Certificate issued by". It
> just becomes too unclear what is issued.

A good point to include the word Certificate.

Comment 6

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I like the single line view, but I don't want to reuse the msgNotificationBar for this.  I would worry that we give the impression of some urgency or action is required by the user if we use that system.

Perhaps we should be adding in an info-bar to the end of the message summary and full headers so we can insert displays like this that don't have to conform to the same grid layout.

Comment 7

[Ronald Killmer]

Bryan; I understand Your view on use of the notification deck. Another concept is to capitalize on the work Standard8 did for the Inline Abook popup. This calls for  conditional addition of an Icon, such as a Pen, next to the Star. The Pen, on Hover, would show the details. Then to carry this forward one more step, address the PGP encrypted issue Bryan raised.  Consider a Padlock icon to serve as an indicator, as needed, of encryption applied without use of a personal signing Cert. This concept avoids loss of limited real estate and leverages the new Inline UX.

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I don't think an infobar (of any kind) is the right thing here. Those shouldn't be used as the main response when the user has explicitly asked for some action. (In this case, clicked "i want to see the security info".)

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This issue should be tested in the 115 environment becaues the message reader is being largely rebuilt for version 115. 115 becomes available in July. Testing beta 3-4 weeks from now is possible.

Note also this bug blocks meta Bug 456814 which is being closed.