277684 - RFE: Want an attachment pane just like Moz 1.7.5

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Steve VanSlyck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In Moz 1.7.5 there is an attachment pane where you can right click to add an
attachment. I would like this in Thunderbird too.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Once the composition has an attachment, the attachment panel does behave exactly 
like Mozilla's.  And of course, you can add an attachment easily by clicking the 
Attach toolbar, via the File menu, or by dragging a file over the addressing 
fields.

Adding this line to your userChrome.css file will sort of give you the results 
you want:
#attachments-box, #attachmentbucket-sizer { display: -moz-box !important; }

#attachmentbucket-sizer is the splitter between the address fields and the 
attachment panel.  This rule is not quite sufficient to get the splitter to 
behave normally; instead, it works more like a collapser -- if you drag it 
towards the right, it doesn't move at all until the panel suddenly collapses all 
the way down.  I don't know what CSS property needs to be set to fix that, but 
that's all that would be required to get full Suite-like behavior.

Comment 2

[Steve VanSlyck]

Coolness abounds. Recommend workaround by adding your recommendation to the FAQ
or someting.

Comment 3

[Steve VanSlyck]

Thanks again. Apologies for the bother.