432844 - search messages and new saved search should be consistent UI

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[ovidiu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008042303 Lightning/0.6a1 Thunderbird/3.0a1pre ID:2008042303

search messages 
-forces search on single account
-no folder/subfolder selection
-allows global [v]search subfolders
new saved search 
-allows cross account
-allows folder/subfolder selection
-no global [v]search subfolders

those panes should be more alike or identical in terms of these options

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open search messages
2.options..
3.open new saved search
4.options..
Actual Results:  
different options/limitations

Expected Results:  
more of the same options in both if not identical 

This is a matter of UI that I find confusing. User may think that they are alike and having limitations, cause if using one way to search is very easy to assume the other is the same.
I do consider those 2 panes should be more alike at least in options like "select folders" and "search subfolders"

I also can assume the option "under what acc to save the new saved search" is there because of / may relate to bug 321455. Also related? to bug 378833

Comment 1

[ovidiu]

Attachment: search messages fron account -capture

marked blue those options in discussion

Comment 2

[ovidiu]

Attachment: new saved search options -capture

marked blue those options in discussion

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

perhaps potential for saving some code if the two become the same

Comment 4

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I think this will likely be taken care of when the new search lands, bug 474701, where we are going to add an "Save this Search" button to the results tab.  My assumption is that the new search will obsolete these dialogs eventually, so I'm going to be putting my efforts toward improving the search results tab instead of these dialogs.  Not sure that I'd WONTFIX this but I'm not planning on working on it.