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It never occurred to me that I should not open a new window to compose an email. How would that work? Displace the folder I'm in, or the message I'm looking at?
by pmontra 3y ago
It never occurred to me that I should not open a new window to compose an email. How would that work? Displace the folder I'm in, or the message I'm looking at? And why?
- pizza234 3y agoIt should do it in a new tab. There have been discussions about it, but all the attempts have been abandoned due to spaghetti code.
- pmontra 3y agoMy Thunderbird window is not full screen but it's larger than the mail composition one. I can use that extra screen space to look at other things while I write a message. Short messages go through WhatsApp and Telegram nowadays. Outbound email is for important matters, so it's not uncommon to look at reference material. A tab wouldn't do. Inbound email is 99.9% notifications. I read and delete most of them with K9 on my phone before downloading what's left with Thunderbird. BTW my mailbox is on a POP3 server. I clear it after downloading the messages.
- pizza234 3y agoThunderbird, like Firefox, already supports detaching tabs into new windows.
- jeltz 3y agoWhy? I kinda like composing in a new window. I may want to read another email while replying to the current one.