296066 - Search should be a toolbar element

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261167

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3

I would like to suggest that the Search field and View dropdown becomes a
toolbar item, so they can be moved from its corrent positions.

Here is a before and after picure:

http://www.heko.dk/~maj/email-thunderbird-before.png 
http://www.heko.dk/~maj/email-thunderbird-after.png                            
                                  

The email program for Mac OSX have something similar:
http://www.heko.dk/~maj/email-macosx.jpg




Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Martin]

Attachment: Before screenshot

Comment 2

[Martin]

Attachment: A mocked up screenshot after the Search field is moved

Comment 3

[Martin]

Attachment: This is how it looks on Mac OSX

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261167 ***