Thunderbird:Menus

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Motivation

The current menus are bloated with extra functionality that is undiscoverable and as such becomes useless. Having much more context relevant actions allows for a cleanup of the menus and better user interactions.

Plan

We are designing for the menus we want and such will be removing all other menu items we don't want. For each menu item we don't want it's necessary to evaluate it's functionality role and create a better system for using that feature.

The Menu

This is somewhat generic at first, then we can expand later to take care of platform issues. Currently I'm starting with a Linux style menu layout.

• File
  • New Tab
  • Close Tab
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  • Page Setup
  • Print Preview
  • Print...
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  • Import...
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  • [ ] Work Offline
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  • Quit

• Edit
  • Undo
  • Redo
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  • Cut
  • Copy
  • Paste
  • Delete
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  • Select All
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  • Preferences

• View
  • Toolbars ->
    • [x] Mail Toolbar
  • [x] Status Bar
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  • Text Size
    • Increase
    • Decrease
    • Reset

• Messages
  • New Message
  • Open Message from file
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  • Go to Mail

• Events and Tasks
  • New Event
  • New Task
  • Open Calendar from file
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  • Go to Calendar
  • Go to Tasks
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  • [ ] Show Today Pane

• Tools
  • Go to Address Book
  • Add-ons
  • Error Console

• Help
  • Help Contents
  • Release Notes
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  • Check for updates...
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  • About

Orphaned Menu Items

Here is the list of menu items we've removed with bugs that handle the conversion of their functionality from a menu item to a context relative action.