168670 - remove sidebar in mail

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

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remove sidebar in mail, make the ab sidebar be a contacts UI

Comment 1

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going to break this up.

step 1, remove sidebar from mail.  but ab sidebar is still usable from browser.

step 2, future bug, add contact panel to 3 pane, based on ab sidebar.

Comment 2

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Attachment: patch

glory day.

Comment 3

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accepting.

note, this will improve 3 pane start up.

Comment 4

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Attachment: patch, includes fix for #95468

Comment 5

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fixed.  I'll go log about about adding contacts UI to the 3 pane.

Comment 6

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for contacts, see bug 168703

Comment 7

[yulian chang]

20020916 trunk builds on Win2K, MacOS X and Linux.

Sidebar has been removed from mail. View | Show/Hide | My Sidebar F9 menu item
was removed.

Comment 8

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Since performance does not seem to be the original reason for this removal (see
comment #3), could someone please explain the reason why sidebar was removed
from mail client ? Not that I object against it, I just wonder why such a bug
suddenly appear w/o any justification or reason, and I wonder if all the people
having to know about it ***prior to check-in*** really knew about it.

Comment 9

[Syd Logan]

I can see the merits in either case (leaving sidebar in or taking it out).I
guess I would just want there to be an elegant way to allow the user to choose
which is best for him/her. I've tended to use mail news window as a
communication center of sorts -- IM or Mail depending on my needs are right
there for me (IM is in the Netscape branded sidebar - but the same argument may
hold for other applets in the sidebar.)

Comment 10

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Please add the adt1.0.2 keyword when a branch patch is ready

Comment 11

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this is not going on 1.0.2

Comment 12

[Karsten Düsterloh]

I have to agree with Syd. I was (and I am still) missing the possibility to
access my bookmarks from the mailnews menu bar, but had found a more powerful
tool instead: the sidebar showing in mailnews!
So I have to repeat Daniel's question: what is the reason for removing it?
Why not adding contacts as another part of the sidebar?

Comment 13

[u69748]

see bug 178003 for more discussion.