280663 - Closing main window makes restart impossible

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jason Giglio]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
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If you close the main three pane window while there are message windows open as
a result of double clicking a message, you will not be able to restart the three
pane window by double clicking the shortcut to thunderbird or by any other
method that I can see, other than closing all the thunderbird windows and
restarting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open Main Window
2.  Double Click one or more Message(s) to bring up message window(s), or
compose windows.
3.  Close main window accidentally
4.  Try to restart main window without having to save everything and close all
Thunderbird windows.

Actual Results:  
Could not restart three pane window without complete thunderbird shutdown

Expected Results:  
In linux, if you restart thunderbird from the shortcut, the main window will pop
back up, even if there are orphaned compose or message windows open.

Comment 1

[jwq]

You should be able to restore the three pane "Mail & News" window from the
Window menu there is also a keyboard shortcut. If you can restore the main
window from the menu then this bug is probably invalid.

Comment 2

[Jason Giglio]

I am able to restore the window from the menu.  Thanks for the workaround.  

I don't know if you all want to give consideration to making the main window
also pop up when the shortcut is clicked again, as that seems to be the
intuitive thing for users to attempt when their main window goes missing.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't know if you all want to give consideration to making the main window
> also pop up when the shortcut is clicked again, as that seems to be the
> intuitive thing for users to attempt when their main window goes missing.

Bug 270757.