516229 - Display "Search messages" in new tab

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[dayslypper]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00
Build Identifier: 3.0 beta 3

There are still some windows whose are displayed like new windows in TB 3 Beta 3. They should be displayed as new tab too. Not only reading a massage. I mean:

- Search window
- Compose window

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

please search before you file a bug

compose in tab : bug 449299

search window: nobody asked it before, but I don't think that all windows should be converted to tabs. There are also non-modal dialogs.

Comment 2

[dayslypper]

OK, I mean only Compose and Search at this time.

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Morphing summary per comment #1 and comment #2: opening compose window in a new tab is bug 449299, so the remaining rfe is opening "search messages" dialogue in a new tab. Which I think is a valid rfe. If we re-arrange the top section of that dialogue, we'll not even loose much vertical space by putting this into a tab.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I would be disappointed if Search Messages were forced into a new tab.

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I would be disappointed if Search Messages were forced into a new tab.
...but Wayne is also "actually open to the possibility" if we do it right (bug 258371, comment #12). Perhaps we can make it a pref.

Having "Search messages" in a tab will also work well with the following RFE:
Bug 258371: Advanced "Search Messages" results should have a message preview pane