Sending window distracting and interrupts flow
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Thunderbird |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When sending an email in Thunderbird a small dialog box appears to say the message is being sent and this affects the flow of interacting with your email. In almost every case I move the focus away from that window and go to my INBOX.
My recommendation would for the window to not show and to show this information in the status bar (similar to how it works in Evolution).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: thunderbird 5.0+build1+
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 14 14:59:20 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110202)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-13 (1 days ago)
Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #440794 +++
Sending email should use the offline capabilities (dump the mail in Unsent Folders, schedule a background send), so that the user can move on immediately to the next task.
Bug 440794 has done most of the initial work to get basic support, what is left is to be able to manage failures so that send/copy failures are automatically retried, and only notified to the user after several failures, plus the associated UI updates.