517693 - Folder Location and/or Mail View widgets should be disabled or hidden when showing Other Tab Types

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[Ian Neal]

If you have customized your mail toolbar to have Folder Location and/or Mail View widgets they still show when you switch to a Calendar or Tasks tab.
Changing those widgets then makes the change to the last mail tab you were in (which is wrong in my opinion).

Comment 1

[Graham Perrin]

I wonder whether Bug 536302 is related, 

> Calendar tab or Tasks tab shows Mail and Newsgroups (not Calendar, not Tasks)

Comment 2

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

I think this should rather be a Thunderbird bug. The command controller should disable all unrelated elements when switching to an external tab, unless of course the external tab controller re-enables these commands.

If the widgets (i.e folder location) should also work in other tabs, then they should auto-switch to the mail tab, in which case they can stay enabled.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Still valid?

Comment 4

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Yes. At least, I managed to move the Folder Location item next to the menu bar and it still functioned there. Some other buttons could go there and appeared to do nothing while in the wrong tab.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This should no longer happen when unified toolbar is fully implemented post-115