79801 - Offline icon not functional in Search and Subscribe

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 80970

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, defect, P2)

Description

[laurel]

Using may09 commercial build
Thought there was already a bug about at least Search UI, but couldn't find it...

Related bugs: bug 78920, bug 65704

The offline icon/indicator is not functional in Search Messages and Subscribe
dialogs.  The icon won't toggle, state is not properly transferred from other
mail window and there is no tooltip or appropriate status text.

If you want these items separated, let me know...

Comment 1

[laurel]

Also not functional in message composition window.
Address book window -- icon functional.

Comment 2

[laurel]

Aha! It resurfaced -- older bug 74351.

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

reassigning to ssu. cc'ing Seth. I don't know how hard this is going to be to 
add to dialogs.  If it's hard then we might consider removing it instead of 
making it functional.

The Msg Compose window works fine for me using the 5/25 build. Removing it from 
the summary.

Comment 4

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Well, neither Search nor Subscribe should be dialogs, they should both be 
windows. Would changing that make this easier?

Comment 5

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

the offline indicator in the history window is also broken.  (I think there's a
bug on that problem, as well as a bug on even having an offline indicator in
that window.)

all three problems are related.  when I fixed the offline indicators, I
knowningly left these three windows broken.  see bug #65704 for all the gory
details.  to summarize:  I wanted to land the fix for the "important" offline
indicators (navigator, 3 pane, std alone msg window, msg compose, editor) and
then follow up with history, search and subscribe.

once we decide if search, history and subscribe should have offline indicators,
I can help ssu jump through the hoops to get them to work like the rest.

Comment 6

[Håkan Waara]

Why should we even have offline icons for windows that are barely usable without
a working connection to the Internet?

Can someone tell me why we should have an indicator in subscribe?

Comment 7

[scottputterman]

moving to 0.9.3

Comment 8

[timeless]

Searching offline and searching online are supposed to be totally different 
features.

Subscribing while offline should prevent mozilla from wasting the users' time 
by downloading a new server list.

If you try to use an item in the history window while you're online you should 
get live content whereas if you try to do it while you're offline you should 
get cached content.

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

Missed 0.9.3.

Comment 10

[scottputterman]

moving to 1.0

Comment 11

[grylchan]

Doing a little cleanup. There couple of bugs all similar to
each other (this one and bug 74351). Seth made a more general
catch all bug (bug 80970).

So I'm going to mark this as dupe of bug 80970


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80970 ***

Comment 12

[laurel]

Marking verified as a duplicate.