remove sidebar from addressbook putterman says: "remove it from the address book and make it hidden by default in mail." The only place sidebar makes sense (in mail) is the 3 pane, when you use the sidebar and the addressbook panel like "contacts" in IE. It's useful for composing messages.

from experience, when we do this, we need to take care to add back in the splitter grippy and to make sure the directory tree pane doesn't get into a bad state when director tree pane is very narrow.

note to self, remove any ab sidebar references in localstore.rdf (ns and mozilla trees)

mscott brings up a good point about sidebar in mail. the only useful sidebar for mail is the addressbook sidebar panel (like outlook express's contacts). instead of doing that with sidebar, just but the UI for it right in. (like blake did with his new compose window.) Instead of "View | Show/Hide | My Sidebar", we'd have "View | Show/Hide | Addressbook", which would be off by default. I like this idea. comments?

Do we think anyone might like access to any of the other sidebar tabs while in Mail besides the AB? Like maybe their Buddy List?

after someone lands a spellchecker into cvs.mozilla.org, i might want a spellchecker sidebar so that i don't have to use the painful spellchecker dialog. beyond that it's mostly pie in the sky (and some might say the spellchecker itself is pie in the sky).

I think the aim team is going to stop supporting buddy list in sidebar.

1) remove sidebar completely from addressbook. 2) handle scenario where user starts up with dirTree collapsed 3) select all and dir tree has focus, select all and focus results pane 4) code cleanup.

taking mail sidebar issue to another bug.

fixed. I also removed addressbook sidebar cruft from localstore.rdf (ns and mozilla).

20020916 trunk builds on Win2K and MacOS X. Sidebar was removed from AddressBook. Linux testing is block by Bug 169051.

Please add the adt1.0.2 keyword when a branch patch is ready

this is not going on 1.0.2

User comment here... I think removing sidebar from mail was a bad idea. I built a custom sidebar which gives me status reports on my servers (automatically refreshes every 5 min). Now there is no way for me to see this information when i am using mail. Is it so hard to just make this a toggle-able action? Leave it off by default if you want, but please bring back the sidebar to mail/news. Its so bad for me I may re-install 1.1.