954877 - Tabs should be drawn in Title Bar on Windows

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Conversation, enhancement)

Description

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1443 by scrapmachines AT gmail.com at 2012-05-18 12:59:00 UTC ***

Firefox also does this, and since IB is built on gecko, it could be achieved in a similar way.
Here is the link from Firefox bug for the same feature : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572160

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 1443 at 2012-06-15 13:17:18 UTC ***

This could certainly be done (and might be wanted by some), maybe someone will come around and implement it (as an option, please).

Comment 2

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1443 by scrapmachines AT gmail.com at 2012-06-15 13:19:15 UTC ***

If someone can provide me the right resources, I can work on it alongside my other work.

Comment 3

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 1443 at 2012-06-15 13:21:47 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #2)
> If someone can provide me the right resources, I can work on it alongside my
> other work.

I'm not sure exactly what "resources" you would need. Best bet would be to check out [1] and hop on IRC [2].

[1] https://wiki.instantbird.org/Developer
[2] #instantbird on irc.mozilla.org

Comment 4

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1443 by scrapmachines AT gmail.com at 2012-06-15 13:26:50 UTC ***

clokep, I am Optimizer. I know those resources already.
I wanted to know the resources for how Mozilla did this, so that I can do some reading.

Comment 5

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 1443 at 2012-06-15 13:28:55 UTC ***

If I wanted to work on this, I would start by looking at the patch from the Firefox bug mentioned in comment 0.

Comment 6

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 1443 at 2012-06-15 13:37:50 UTC ***

So a rough mapping of files from that patch to Instantbird (no promises they're all right):

a/browser/app/profile/firefox.js --> instantbird/app/profile/all-instantbird.js
a/browser/base/content/browser.css --> instantbird/content/instantbird.css
a/browser/base/content/browser.js --> instantbird/content/instantbird.js
a/browser/base/content/browser.xul --> instantbird/content/instantbird.xul
a/browser/base/content/tabbrowser.xml --> instantbird/content/tabbrowser.xml
a/browser/base/content/tabview/ui.js --> ???
a/browser/themes/winstripe/browser/browser.css --> instantbird/themes/conversation-aero.css

Comment 7

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 1443 at 2012-06-15 13:42:45 UTC ***

Does this bug have some overlap with bug 954947 (bio 1515) (e.g. by needing changed structure of the tabbar/...)? If yes, we should see which order would make more sense to fix these bugs?

Comment 8

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.

Comment 9

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.

Comment 10

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.