Changes have been made in Git for this ticket:

Makie msStatus in the viewport a single field.
Enhancement #7519 - allows more flexibility in display status icons.

http://git.horde.org/diff.php/imp/js/DimpBase.js?rt=horde-git&r1=9ca5a35f220980068b704849d55d1bb4a44d5c49&r2=8e47a01a7a1c4b49bb381f722800a7480a3bb35c
http://git.horde.org/diff.php/imp/js/ViewPort.js?rt=horde-git&r1=72af04ded77363cb7d0ed33ed42875e7fa682766&r2=8e47a01a7a1c4b49bb381f722800a7480a3bb35c
http://git.horde.org/diff.php/imp/js/src/DimpBase.js?rt=horde-git&r1=9ca5a35f220980068b704849d55d1bb4a44d5c49&r2=8e47a01a7a1c4b49bb381f722800a7480a3bb35c
http://git.horde.org/diff.php/imp/js/src/ViewPort.js?rt=horde-git&r1=0c9f12977d718a9a8a4ff8e59ce27d60e51d0f76&r2=8e47a01a7a1c4b49bb381f722800a7480a3bb35c
http://git.horde.org/diff.php/imp/templates/javascript/mailbox-dimp.js?rt=horde-git&r1=0c9f12977d718a9a8a4ff8e59ce27d60e51d0f76&r2=8e47a01a7a1c4b49bb381f722800a7480a3bb35c
http://git.horde.org/diff.php/imp/themes/screen-dimp.css?rt=horde-git&r1=927ff83fca203015b4b5e00107d7b5f692fae464&r2=8e47a01a7a1c4b49bb381f722800a7480a3bb35c
http://git.horde.org/diff.php/imp/themes/silver/screen-dimp.css?rt=horde-git&r1=7ba4436310678d9958e75a1394c19eb0cf055ada&r2=8e47a01a7a1c4b49bb381f722800a7480a3bb35c

In IMP 5, implemented a single status container that can handle any 
number of status icons, rather than discrete status fields.

I agree with Michael.

Don't agree with this.  You can already tell whether a message is 
seen/unseen by whether the text is bold or not.  We only have a 
limited amount of real estate to work with.  Additionally, a seen icon 
is one more icon we have to load from the remote server.
I would prefer that all the status/icon code be rewritten so that we 
only have one column for all this data.  This would mean that we can't 
display the images via CSS, but I think that is a valid tradeoff 
because the current layout is less than desirable (since you can only 
show 1 flag at a time for several of those items).  Allowing more than 
one flag to be displayed becomes even more important in the future 
when we implement the ability to display custom flags.

Sorry, I also increased the width of those elements to 18 they were 
too close together at 16



themes/silver/screen.css



div.msgStatus .msCheck, div.msgStatus .msState, div.msgStatus 
.msCompose, div.msgStatus .msPri {

     width: 18px;

     float: left;

}

I prefer a more consistent look in the mailbox view, similar to 
Outlook where each message has a status of some sort. I've made a 
default background to .msState which is "seen" and moved the msCompose 
items over to msState so all statuses are in the same column. Moving 
div.flagged over to msCompose creates the flag icon in it's own 
column. Perhaps this isn't for everyone but I like the look quite a 
bit better. Here are the relevant changes to themes/screen.css and 
themes/silver/screen.css



/* Status images and flags selectors: status column */

.msglist .msState {

     background: transparent url("graphics/mail_seen.png") center 
center no-repeat;

}

.msglist div.unseen .msState {

     background: transparent url("graphics/mail_unseen.png") center 
center no-repeat;

}

.msglist div.flagged .msCompose {

     background: transparent url("graphics/mail_flagged.png") center 
center no-repeat;

}

.msglist div.deletedmsg .msState {

     background: transparent url("graphics/mail_deleted.png") center 
center no-repeat;

}

/* Status images and flags selectors: priority column */

.msglist div.unimportant .msPri {

     background: transparent url("graphics/mail_priority_low.png") 
center center no-repeat;

}

.msglist div.important .msPri {

     background: transparent url("graphics/mail_priority_high.png") 
center center no-repeat;

}

/* Status images and flags selectors: compose status column */

.msglist div.answered .msState {

     background: transparent url("graphics/mail_answered.png") center 
center no-repeat;

}

.msglist div.draft .msState {

     background: transparent url("graphics/mail_draft.png") center 
center no-repeat;

}