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title: > Tabbed Thunderbird date: 2005-04-03 01:53 status: published description: > Proposal for a one-pane interface for Thunderbird
tags: Mozilla, Thunderbird
links:
- url: http://getthunderbird.com
title: > Thunderbird rel: related type: text/html - url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218999
title: > Bugzilla@Mozilla โ Bug 218999 โ Thunderbird should use a tabbed interface rel: related type: text/html
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I've been thinking (albeit briefly) about a <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218999" title="Bug 218999 - Thunderbird should use a tabbed interface (bugzilla.mozilla.org)">tabbed interface for Thunderbird</a>, or rather a one-pane interface. It looks pretty simple.
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(Disclaimer: it's 02:17 <abbr title="British Summer Time">BST</abbr> so thoughts may appear partially-formed, deformed, misinformed and/or Nazi-uniformed; I'll proof-read this at an undetermined future time.)
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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| @ Mooquackwooftweetmeow Thunderbird - + X |
| File Edit View Go Message Tools Help |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| @@@ @@@ | @@@ @@@ |
| @@@ @@@ | @@@ @@@ |
| Get Mail Stop | Compose Etc. |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| _ _ _ _ |
||Gmail||Airmail||aRSSe Feeds||Newsgroups of the World|_|
| _ __ _ _ __ |
||Home||Inbox||Drafts||Sent||Trash||Re: Taking over world||Compose: Re: Taking over world||
| |
| Subject: Re: Taking over world |
| From: rb@virgin.co.uk |
| Date: 2005-04-01 08:32 |
| To: billyg@mozilla.org |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Friday sounds good |
| -- |
| Richard |
| |
| |
| |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ~ | | Unread: 0 | Total: 4781 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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The basic idea is that the current 3-pane system is condensed into a set of nested tabs. Each account's <cite>Home</cite> tab shows pretty options like Thunderbird's current server pages. <cite>Inbox</cite>, <cite>Sent</cite> and friends look much like the current messages pane. Messages' previews would appear beneath the messages' list item, in the style of webpage-bound, JavaScript-driven expandable <abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> lists. All of these tabs would be immutable.
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When a message is double-clicked (or middle-clicked) or a <cite>Compose</cite>-like action is chosen, a new tab would be opened under the appropriate account. These tabs can be closed and perhaps rearranged, imitating Firefox's tabs. When sending a message, progress would be indicated in the status bar, not in a pop-up dialogue.
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