552530 - Search field close button (blue X) should be seen only when a search filter is active

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[r.franz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
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In TB 2 the blue close button disappears, when the search string is killed by klicking this button. So there is an optical feedback that no search filter is active. In TB 3 this button only disappears when the search string is killed via keyboard (backspace). A mouse click clears the search string field, but the button is still to see and one thinks that the search filter is still active.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In the main window enter a search string in the search field
2. Clear the text by clicking the blue close button -> button remains: wrong!
3. Now enter a sting and use the backspace to kill it -> button disappears: ok!

Comment 1

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Yes, it is: the behavior is changed from TB 2.x. Ludo we should ask to :clarkbw if this should be close as wontfix?

Comment 2

[r.franz]

Why "wontfix"? The button disappears after clearing the text via backspace, but it remains after using the mouse. That is inconsequent.

Comment 3

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

You are right franz: is inconsistent behavior because when user click on button input text is cleaned but button still reamains visible.

I don't know if this is deliberate.