Compose In A Tab

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Status

Compose In A Tab
Stage	Draft
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Health	OK
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Team

Product manager	`
Directly Responsible Individual	Jonathan Protzenko
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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

One way to move the compose window into a tab is to load the Compose window document into a XUL iframe (which is like an HTML iframe, except it hosts XUL). To test this out, install the Developer Assistant extension for Thunderbird, then go to Tools -> Extension Developer -> JavaScript Shell and run the following code:

enumerateWindows();
 Shell.enumWins[0].document.getElementById("tabmail").openTab(
  "chromeTab", {chromePage: "chrome://messenger/content/messengercompose/messengercompose.xul"});

Then try playing around with it, sending a message, etc. As you can see, the basic concept works, but there are currently issues with the UI. Your job will be to sort them out, make everything work properly, and ship your code as part of Thunderbird.

Easier way: Tools -> Error Console, then

top.opener.openTab("chromeTab", {chromePage: "chrome://messenger/content/messengercompose/messengercompose.xul"});

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

Level of difficulty: hard.

Skills needed: will require writing XUL (menus will probably need to be moved out into an overlay), JavaScript (passing menu commands down to the child iframe) and CSS (to fix theming issues) and writing unit tests to ensure that things work as expected. Since Mac OS X has a global menu, getting it right might require more work. You will need access to a Mac for your proposal to be accepted..

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

` {{#set:Feature open issues and risks=` |Feature overview=One way to move the compose window into a tab is to load the Compose window document into a XUL iframe (which is like an HTML iframe, except it hosts XUL). To test this out, install the Developer Assistant extension for Thunderbird, then go to Tools -> Extension Developer -> JavaScript Shell and run the following code:

enumerateWindows();
 Shell.enumWins[0].document.getElementById("tabmail").openTab(
  "chromeTab", {chromePage: "chrome://messenger/content/messengercompose/messengercompose.xul"});

Then try playing around with it, sending a message, etc. As you can see, the basic concept works, but there are currently issues with the UI. Your job will be to sort them out, make everything work properly, and ship your code as part of Thunderbird.

Easier way: Tools -> Error Console, then

top.opener.openTab("chromeTab", {chromePage: "chrome://messenger/content/messengercompose/messengercompose.xul"});

|Feature users and use cases=` |Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=Level of difficulty: hard.

Skills needed: will require writing XUL (menus will probably need to be moved out into an overlay), JavaScript (passing menu commands down to the child iframe) and CSS (to fix theming issues) and writing unit tests to ensure that things work as expected. Since Mac OS X has a global menu, getting it right might require more work. You will need access to a Mac for your proposal to be accepted.. |Feature non-goals=` |Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=` |Feature implementation plan=` |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=` |Feature landing criteria=` }}

Feature details

Priority	Unprioritized
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	`
Roadmap	Thunderbird
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Thunderbird
Project	`
Engineering team	Unassigned

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Team status notes

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