135286 - Search string remains in quick search field in Sidebar and Select Addresses after changing address book

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[yulian chang]

20020402 trunk build on Wins

When changing LDAP Directory in Sidebar or Select Addresses dlg to do search,
the search string left from previous search is not cleared and it's used
immediately to search in the next chosen Directory. This behaves differently
from the quich search in Address Book which clears the previous search string.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

True this behavior is not consistent with address book quick search, but for sidebar I think this behavior is preferable - making it easier to do quickly multiple searches.

I don't see how this depends on bug 178003 

Is LPAP integration the correct component for compose sidebar?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

"Select Addresses dlg" == options->select addresses.

(resolving to invalid in order to reopen back to unconfirmed)

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Oh well, thought i could make it uncofirmed) 

change component to suite.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Unconfirmed per comment 3.

Comment 5

[Rainer Bielefeld]

For me the described behavior is a feature, not a bug. Sidebar (and Dialog) for "Insert Address" behave the same way. Search string will be removed in "Edit Addresses" dialog when change address book, but that is something completely different. If a change should be done, IMHO the string also should remain in "Edit Addresses" dialog, and also in Search Emails Summary and Addresses" search function. But that is my private opinion.

This bug is 13 years old, nobody was interested, some kind of very very very minor WONTFIX.

Please feel free to reopen this Bug Report if you can contribute reasons why unification is necessary.

Comment 6

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Attachment: Screenshots With Comments.pdf

Attached document shows how discussed UI elements look 2015, I haven't a clue how that looked 2002 and might look 2028 :-/

Comment 7

[Rainer Bielefeld]

And we have "Bug 393805 - Search string is erased when different address book is selected " what complains that search string becomes erased ...