1095011 - Annoying and inconsistent "go to Calendar" and "go to Tasks" icons on the tab bar are fixed and not possible to remove without more add-ons

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 730217

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[pavlo.s.verba]

Attachment: Screenshot illustrating the problem

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141015093046

Steps to reproduce:

Installed current versions of Lightning and Thunderbird with default settings.


Actual results:

Noticed out of place icons in the rightmost top corner of the interface that cannot be removed using built-in options. 

(My issue with this is inconsistency: no modern free software I know of handles interface in this way today — Mozilla Firefox, which is closely related to Thunderbird in terms of interface design, no longer places any additional buttons or gizmos on the tab bar by default  — my guess is that it's not terribly useful and distracting.  By default, buttons that allow you to access Chats and Address book are also placed on the toolbar and can be moved away or customized. There is an add-on that fixes this issue, but bugs should probably be fixed upstream, right?)


Expected results:

I expected to see a modern interface, or at least, be able to customize it back to sanity without using third-party things.

Comment 1

[pavlo.s.verba]

Attachment: Screenshot with the issue fixed by an add-on

Comment 2

[Decathlon]

It seems the tab bar is the only place in the interface that is not possible to hide differently from the toolbar, menu bar and status bar, moreover the buttons are always visible independently from the selected tab (and the related toolbar), anyway I think we can confirm the bug and give a choice to the user.

However, you can easily hide the buttons by adding the following code in the userChrome.css file (inside the folder chrome of your Thunderbird profile) without using any third-party things:

#tabbar-toolbar {
  display: none;
}

Editing a hidden file it's not a user friendly way, but once you know it it's simple and works well even for more complex things. Would be nice to have a such feature in many, so called, "modern" software.

Instead the buttons can be added in the toolbar when customizing the bar in the usual way.

Comment 3

[Decathlon]

There was already a bug report, actually more than one.