Closed Bug 268991 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Tidy up menu entries for Options, Preferences, Account Properties

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264061

People

(Reporter: nplatis, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041105 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041105 Firefox/1.0RC2

In Thunderbird, the Options menu entry can be found under the Tools menu on
Linux, just like on Windows. 

However, in Firefox, the corresponding entry is Edit->Preferences on Linux and
Tools->Options on Windows. I suspect that Firefox tries to respect Gnome
applications UI guidelines on Linux and Windows applications on Windows, which
is acceptable (although this small difference is slightly annoying when the
product is so much the same across the two platforms).

Anyway, currently Thunderbird is not consistent with Firefox in this respect,
and I believe it should be (or Firefox should be consistent across platforms!)

I can't test the products on Mac, to see the situation there.

Bug 213947 is related to this issue

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264061 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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