575355 - Quickfilter toolbar buttons/items should be movable to other toolbars (e.g. main toolbar) via Customize...

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Charles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6
Build Identifier: 3.1 final

I'd like to be able to do this with any of these buttons, but at a bare minimum, the toolbar toggle button on the Tab bar needs to be able to be added to other toolbars...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Quickfilter toolbar toggle icon is on the Tab bar
2. If Tab bar is hidden, the icon is hidden
3. Cannot move the button to other toolbar
4. Also cannot move any of the buttons on the left side of the Quickfilter toolbar to any other toolbar
Actual Results:  
Cannot move any of the buttons...

Expected Results:  
Would like to also be able to add any of these buttons to a different toolbar (like the Menu toolbar)...

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

That's standard toolkit stuff, you just need a
<toolbarpalette>
  <toolbarbutton id="quickfilter-starred" label="" />
  <toolbaritem>
    <textbox id="quicksearchfield" />
  </toolbaritem>
</toolbarpalette>
<toolbar id="quickfilter-bar"
    defaultset="quickfilter-starred,quicksearchfield" />

Only additional complication is the shrinking and Thunderbird updates that add/remove buttons, but both of these are solvable (we solved both with the Firefox toolbar we're creating, the shrinking idea was actually based on this quickfilter toolbar).

Comment 3

[Charles]

Thanks for the comment on what is necessary to make this happen (and the more concise Summary) Ben... sounds like it might not be nearly as much work as I had feared....

But, for clarification:

1. when you say 'shrinking', are you talking about how the Quickfilter toolbar buttons switch between Icons+Text to only small icons, depending on screen size/resolution?

and

2. can you elaborate on what you mean by 'the Firefox toolbar you're creating'?

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

1. yes 2. No

Comment 5

[Charles]

(In reply to comment #4)
> 2. No

???

Why so rude? If you couldn't comment on it you really shouldn't have even mentioned it...

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

You asked "can you elaborate?" and the answer is "no". The toolbar is proprietary. I mentioned it to show that it's possible and not too difficult.

Comment 7

[Charles]

Ok, fine... so why not just say so... just saying 'no' like that was ... well, maybe you didn't intend to be rude, but it sure wasn't very friendly sounding.

And I reiterate.... referencing some mysterious toolbar that you can not elaborate on doesn't 'show' anything about possibilities, except to someone who is privy to details of the toolbar, so even mentioning it was really just pointless.

Anyway, thanks for the example above, hopefully it will pique someone's interest enough to start working on this...

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

The QFB was rebuilt for 115. But it will also be redesigned in a future release, and a comment period will be announced at a future date in bug 1846359. Comments will gladly be accepted at that time.