1783905 - Attachment Status in the Search Messages dialog is mis-worded

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1782392

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Carl Pearson]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:103.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/103.0

Steps to reproduce:

Used search messages dialog and chose Attachment Status as a criteria.

Actual results:

The "Attachment Status" criteria used to have three sections, now it just has two.

Expected results:

The third criteria (no longer present) was where "Has Attachments" used to be displayed. It was just a label, and could be selected, but only contained that one choice showing the verbiage.

Now with only two sections, all you get is "Attachment Status" and "Is" / "Isn't".

Just saying "is" / "isn't" for that second drop-down could be worded better.

While searching for attachment status does still work, it would make more sense if instead the second criteria said "has attachments" / "doesn't have attachments" rather than "is" / "isn't".

Alternatively, restore the "Has Attachments" label so the "is" / "isn't" section has context as to what it's doing.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It's not about the wording. There was a bug which made the menu disappear.