1046121 - Global search results should show contact results, and allow creating a new contact or creating an email

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[pitrou]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140715214327

Steps to reproduce:

If I search for "joebar" in my messages, and there are some messages to/from the address (say) "Joe Bar <[e-mail]>", then the search results should:

- show me a button allowing me to e-mail Joe Bar
- show me a button allowing me to add Joe Bar to my contacts

This is bugging me on a daily basis: I search for someone's name in my e-mails, and then have to go through hoops to actually exploit the results for contacting that person.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

+1, really nice idea pitrou.

Pitrou, you want this for Global Search field (Ctrl+K), or Quick Filter Bar (ctrl+Shift+k), or both?

Magnus, is it technically possible to have a context menu on indivicual search suggestions from global search field suggestion dropdown list? (Suppose yes...)

We could then have a context menu with at least:

Add to Address Book / Edit contact
Compose Message To
Copy Email Address

This might actually be not too hard for implementation...

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I suppose it's possible.

Comment 3

[pitrou]

> Pitrou, you want this for Global Search field (Ctrl+K), or Quick Filter Bar (ctrl+Shift+k), or both?

My request was for the Global Search field. I like the Quick Filter but it doesn't sound adequate for something else than messages.