254766 - option to close original message window when replying

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Florian Effenberger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: 0.7.3

Please add an option to close the original message window when replying. Does
not necessarily have to be in the program itself for the beginning, a user.js
feature would be okay as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[Mattias]

Please re-open this one.  It would be a great feature.  My screen keeps getting cluttered by email messages I have already replied to.  There is no way to see that I have already replied, other than going back to the inbox.  Outlook used to do this before I switched to Thunderbird and I very much miss this feature.  Please, Please, Please.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reopening

Comment 6

[Mattias]

In lieu of a feature, does anyone know of an add-on that does this?  (I have searched for one.)  Thanks!

Comment 7

[dfghjkjhg]

Would be great if the original message window would close on ALL of the following actions:

- delete
- forward
- reply
- reply to all
- junk
- no junk

It's really annoying having to close the original message window manually after having replied/forwarded etc.

Comment 8

[Merlin Cul Kirkpatrick]

I totally agree.  I wish they would stop ignoring this one.  You have to vote on it at the top to bring attention to it.  This one and the bug for duplicate eMails in the address book because it is case sensitive annoy me a lot.

Comment 9

[Mattias]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I totally agree.  I wish they would stop ignoring this one.  You have to vote
> on it at the top to bring attention to it.  This one and the bug for duplicate
> eMails in the address book because it is case sensitive annoy me a lot.

It's important to remember that "they" are people who volunteer their time.  This may be an important feature, but you're not winning any points by alienating programmers.

Comment 10

[Merlin Cul Kirkpatrick]

(In reply to comment #9)
> It's important to remember that "they" are people who volunteer their time. 
> This may be an important feature, but you're not winning any points by
> alienating programmers.

Yup, I agree.  My apologies.  On the other hand, after being ignored politely for five years I cannot imagine that there is anything I could say or do that would make a difference at this point.
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To the people responsible for the core, patches have been submitted to solve this for years.  Please impliment them.

To the people that maintain the code for bugzilla...
Please improve this system.  Duplicate tickets should count as votes, and votes on those duplicate tickets should be ported over (If they are not already) and the voting system should be made more clear.  I did not even know it existed for years.

Just because a bug does not have massive votes does not mean it should be ignored for SEVEN YEARS!

To anyone who has ever been involved with Thunderbird in any way, your efforts are appreciated by me.  I think that the Thunderbird concept is amazing and with the right plugins it beats any other eMail client by far... Thank you.

Comment 11

[Merlin Cul Kirkpatrick]

Oh sorry, I got this one confused with another bug.  But most of it still applies.  Why is the status of this bug still unconfirmed after all this time?  Do you not just have to hit reply to confirm it?

Comment 12

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

(In reply to comment #10)
> for five years I cannot imagine that there is anything I could say or do that
> would make a difference at this point.

Provide a patch?

> -----------------
> To the people responsible for the core, patches have been submitted to solve
> this for years.  

There are no patches anywhere afaikt.

Comment 13

[Merlin Cul Kirkpatrick]

You are correct.(In reply to comment #12)
> There are no patches anywhere afaikt.

You are correct.  I thought I was responding to a comment on the bug about case sensitive checking on the address book.  I am sorry if that was confusing.  It was late and I cannot find a way to modify my comment.

Comment 14

[dfghjkjhg]

Is there really no programmer out there who takes pity on us ?
Please :-(

Comment 16

[vinnie]

I'll add my voice to wanting this as a native feature. I've been able to use the changeQuote add-on to do this some of the time, but there have been times when an update to the TB/BB causes some add-ons to no longer be compatible, and then the feature is not available and we are dependent on the add-on creator to provide an update. Many add-ons are not maintained long term or take a long time to be updated for the latest TB/BB version, and so the risk of intermittently losing functionality provided only by an add-on is high over time.

TB/BB have an existing option to close the message window/tab on forward or delete. It would seem adding this existing functionality to the reply action would be something that could reuse this existing code and just adding another trigger.

In any event, I want to add my vote to this one to hopefully keep it alive.