458432 - Add minimize, maximize and restore buttons in task and event edit window

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Dialogs, enhancement)

Description

[Emerson Prado]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; pt-BR; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: 2008091719

The task and event windows lack the window control buttons. The only one available is close. This is annoying when I want to keep a task open for a while, working in other apps. The only way to minimize these windows in Windows is clicking in the "View desktop" icon. But, even then, when we restore any window, the task or event minimize is restored as well.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 2

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

For the record: these buttons are absent in all Windows O/S across all Lightning versions.  However, in Debian 6 and Kubuntu 11 (and in Linux in general?), these buttons are available in all recent Lightning versions.

These buttons are very useful and convenient. Since we have them in Linux, for uniformity across platforms matter, I think it would be nice to have them in Windows as well.

The place to change is in chrome/calendar/content/calendar/calendar-item-editing.js around line 33.

Comment 3

[accounts]

As the chrome sub folder is gone in the current version 4.0.1 (its contents seem to have been complied into a chrome.jar) there is no way to modify the aforementioned file calendar-item-editing.js any more. I lived happily with this workaround for about 1.5 years, but now it seems impossible again to make those window control buttons available under Windows.

Comment 4

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

If you upgrade to 4.0.1.2 from addons.mozilla.org, then you will get the old structure. I'm surprised you didn't get updated to that version automatically. Note all versions on addons.mozilla.org currently have the old structure, only the ones packaged with Thunderbird have the new one. If in doubt, you can always redownload from addons.mozilla.org.

That aside, the chrome.jar is just a .zip file. You can extract the contents, make changes to calendar-item-editing.js, then repackage the chrome.jar using your favorite archive program.

Comment 5

[accounts]

Here is what happened: I had to reinstall Lightning, different problem, but not reproduceable: After I updated Thunderbird to 38.1.0 and re-started it, the Lightning addon was just gone. The calendar data was still there in its folder, but the lightning extension folder was completely gone. I then re-installed lightning to the version that I was offered from within the addon tab in Thunderbird at that moment, which was v4.0.1.

Meanwhile (I just checked again), Lightning got updated to 4.0.1.2 and the chrome folder is back. ;)

On a side note: Yes, I know that a .jar file is a .zip file, but both trying to view/unzip with 7-zip and in a command box with jar (jar tf jar-file, or jar xf jar-file) led to error messages, that's were I surrendered.

Comment 6

[accounts]

Updating to Thunderbird 38.3.0 also updated Lightning to 4.3 where the old structure was gone again. However, I was able downgrade to Lightning 4.0.1.2 again.

Comment 7

[accounts]

Here we are again. During the last couple of months, after each Thunderbird update I re-installed Lightning 4.0.2.1, because in that version certain files are still residing unpacked within the folder structure, and thus allowed for changing their content.

With TB 45, Lightning 4.0.2.1 is not compatible any more. Thus the calendar event windows will go back to being not minimzeable on Windows platforms.

Comment 8

[accounts]

O.k., same as recommended above worked: Install the Lightning version from addons.mozilla.org over the one that came with Thunderbird, because that version contains the unpacked files.

Comment 9

[John Veness]

I notice that, as well as missing the minimize/maximise/restore buttons, these windows act more like dialogs than standalone windows. In particular, they appear always on top of the application. This is very awkward when working in Thunderbird, and wanting to add or edit an event while multitasking reading/responding to email - you have to drag the event window to the side of the screen.