Comment 178 for bug 52667

In reply to Comment #123
> The obvious UI solution is to have a dropdown in the new "reply..." button.
Rumour has it that Thunderbird development can sometimes be quite resistant against implementing "obvious UI solutions" (like scrollbars on overflowing all-headers), but the good news is that after some 5 years or so, the likelihood of "obvious UI solutions" to be implemented increases dramatically (cf. bug 223132, now fixed!). The RFE to have dropdown reply buttons etc. was filed as early as 1999 in bug 17796, so chances are...

I think having an extra menu on the sender's email link in the header as proposed by Comment #125 is much less intuitive than having all reply options in one single place, namely a dynamic dropdown reply button. I'd suppose it'll be quite confusing for the user finding only the default reply option on the button in the preview header, and having to go somewhere else and use a quite different approach for non-default reply options (context menu of sender etc.). Are there any reasons /against/ having a dropdown reply button (with dynamic default actions, if you so wish)?