Thunderbird/Students/StatusUpdates/2010-03-05

Status Updates

Wei Xian Woo

There was a delay in submitting the revised first patch due to a Thunderbird startup crash, but the patch is now in for a review again. As I was making the changes Blake suggested, I noticed a few things that could have been done a little better so I made those changes as well.

While I wait to hear back about patch 1r2, I have been looking at supporting other window types for patch 2r0. The first task planned for this patch is to support message windows (i.e. if a user had a message opened in a new window, we would persist that as well on an app crash). Whether to persist that across app sessions on proper shutdown is a question that still remains - I think what we should do is to let the user choose on shut down by popping up a simple message box. Issues? We might need to redefine what it means to "shut down the app". Details:

1) Currently, Thunderbird shuts down only when ALL windows are closed. 2) If we implement the popup described above, we might want to say that the app is shut down when the last 3-pane window is closed. And if other window types, such as compose or message windows are opened at the time the last 3-pane window is closed, we show that popup asking if we should save the state of the other windows and restore them next time.

As soon as I get something solid going with the message window, I will discuss with the relevant people about the above issues in more detail -- probably starting with Blake.

Who’s writing the blog post this week?

Wei Xian Woo