1509447 - Feature request: use spin box for date field in message search

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Miguel J]

Attachment: date_spin.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Right click on a mailbox, "Search in messages"
2. In the search condition, choose "Date"


Actual results:

A simple text box appears with the current date, needs to be edited if I want to select the day before


Expected results:

The date in a spin box: clicking on the small up and down arrows would select the day after or before (see montage in attachment, upper part).

Alternatively, OS specific date picker widgets might be use. But as far as I am concerned, I do not find them so easy to use, so I would recommend to keep a simple solution: use spin tool to do ±1 day, and let the user enter the date manually for any other case.

Or else, beside the spin tool, a date-picking icon might be added to show a pop-up date picker, as shown in the lower part of the attached montage