293012 - Filter dialog should not be a sheet

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Frankie]

Similar to other de-sheeting requests, the Create Filter sheet prevents you from
looking at the message you are trying to filter, making it very difficult to
select your criteria.

Comment 1

[william.allen.simpson]

Confirm.  Don't know about "sheeting", but this used to work under earlier
versions.  Worst is when trying to look at message *source* and filters at same
time.  I usually filter on message header fields (like "Return-Path:"), and need
to see them in source form.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

This is WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090602 Shredder/3.0b3pre

Comment 3

[Frankie]

Yes, this was fixed in TBird 2.0, thanks for pointing it out.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

->WFM unless you dig up which bug fixed it

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

In what way is this either wfm _or_ fixed? There are two ways to get to "Create Filter": Message - Create Filter From Message, which creates a sheet parented to (and thus blocking) the 3pane unless you're cunning enough to trigger it from the standalone message window, and Tools - Message Filters - New..., which creates a sheet parented to (and thus blocking) the Message Filters dialog.

Comment 6

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #5)

> from the standalone message window, and Tools - Message Filters - New..., which
> creates a sheet parented to (and thus blocking) the Message Filters dialog.

It's WFM in that case. I agree that the sheet created from the message menu is not WFM. The reporter agrees with it being WFM.