Closed Bug 105955 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

MailNews Should be Viewable in a Tab

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: unmobile+mozbugs, Assigned: sspitzer)

References

Details

The MailNews component of Mozilla should be available not only in a seperate
window, but also in a tab if the user chooses for it to display this way. This
would make it more convinient to have multiple applications running while
Mozilla is running, since it would only appear once on the Windows taskbar,
which is why I used to love the Opera browser. My build-ID is Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011.
I don't know if this RFE will fixed
(see bug 102480)
Depends on: 102480
Marking NEW.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Mail Window Front End → Tabbed Browser
Ever confirmed: true
Product: MailNews → Browser
*** Bug 107915 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
OS: Windows 98 → All
Hardware: PC → All
*** Bug 117937 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Come on, this is such bloat.  Multiple webpages in a window is one thing, but 
having MailNews in a tab would be ridiculous, and would turn the browser into an 
operating system.

Windows XP allows you to group all taskbar icons from one app into one taskbar 
icon.

This is so wontfix.
Guess What?
Not all of us use, or ever plan to use Window$ XP.
This most deifinitely not bloat, 
as Opera manages to do it rather well. I find its ability to keep everything in one window, 
seperate from everything else running on my system, quite nice, and I bet others do as 
well.
Another thing: This would create almost no bloat at all, as it would only require 
creating the ability to display MailNews using the chrome:// style URI. In theory, it's already 
possible, but there is no way for a user who doesn't know the trick to use it. All I'm suggesting is 
adding a simple way of doing this within the normal interface.
*** Bug 126957 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
WONTFIX. We should be separating the applications, not merging them further.

Petition your OS maker to get a tabbed window manager.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
You can do this to some degree already by opening
"chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xul" in a tab. Granted it doesn't look
real good but it does work.

I don't believe this joins the browser and mailnews anymore than they already
are. It only provides a different location to view the mailnews content.
Yes, exactly. No more than they already are -- which is too close already.
*** Bug 146502 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 165002 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Come on!  This has 6 duplicate bugs and you think it's a wontfix?  If mail/news
is being broken out of the browser now (and by now I mean in 1.1 or 1.2 beta),
then this should be a wontfix.  But the fact is that breaking mail/news out
would require a complete rewrite of mail/news and probably composer et al.

It looks like, for good or evil, mail/news is going to be a part of the browser
for a long time.  If that is so, why be fascist about how people can look at it.
 Many of us come from MDI-like OSes and, for reasons that are not your place to
judge, would prefer a MDI-like mozilla.  Deal.  If you don't want to do the
work, fine.  But at least open the bug back up so we can have a place to work on
making mozilla better.

*** Bug 170896 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
re: comment 13
Including mail in the tabbed browser will also require extensive
UI rewrite, specifically due to different menu structure and UI
layout.

Also, for accessbility reasons, this should be a WONTFIX. Integrate
mail/news into a browser and you run into all sorts of usability
issues. Switching between a Web page and the mail/news window and
you have to switch the layout of the toolbar also. The location bar,
once separated from the toolbar, will have to be hidden. The
personal bar will work very weird (sure, there's a enhancement
request for allowing message bookmarking, but can a casual user
figure it out?). The components bar will work differently depending
on the context. Cognitive stress explodes because users have to
remember in what mode they are working in and what keyboard shortcuts
work (or don't work) in what mode (take Ctrl+T, for example).

With MDI, the issue is the same--casual users just can't figure
out MDI. The advanced users may be pissed about the decision to
WONTFIX MDI and this bug, but it's way better to ask advanced users
to deal with it than to ask casual users to deal with it.
of course, I'm grossly wrong about using the term `accessibility'.
I really meant `usability', but whatever...
Summary: [RFE] MailNews Should be Viewable in a Tab → MailNews Should be Viewable in a Tab
*** Bug 188222 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 191129 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 204946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 237894 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 238135 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Product: Core → SeaMonkey
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