264851 - Make edit card window non-modal

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115904

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Max Waterman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
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When you select a card in the address book and click the 'properties' button, it
causes one of those (IMO, stupid) drop down windows to appear. This 'window'
completely covers the window behind it and so I cannot select a different card
in order to obtain (select/paste) info.

Please consider changing the window type to a normal one.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.select a card
2.click properties
3.attempt to view a different card

Actual Results:  
cannot select a different card

Expected Results:  
should be able to view any other card while viewing the properties of a card.

What I was trying to do, was to 'merge' several address cards together, in a
similar fashion to what is done automatically in Apple's Address Book
application (using the 'merge cards' option). Perhaps this 'bug' would be more
accurately files as an RFE for such a feature. I'll leave that upto the developers.

Comment 1

[Mike Fedyk]

Confirmed on Win2k with TB 0.9 (20041103)

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 273512 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Seamonkey bug 128169.  For some reason, *that* bug still wants the card modal 
when opened from the AB, despite a comment in that bug pointing out how being 
modal *in* the AB is still a problem.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Bug 115904 is requesting the same thing as this one, and that bug is now core
address book, therefore duping this bug to that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115904 ***