David Ascher (:davida) Reporter
	Description • 16 years ago

This bug will be the status bar part of the whole activity manager feature.

	Mark Banner (:standard8)
	Comment 2 • 15 years ago

I think we've pretty much decided that for Thunderbird 3 we'll be going the half-way stage of hooking up the activity manager to the existing status bar. Therefore removing this off the blocking list, and adding bug 489588.

	Marcel Guzman
	Comment 3 • 15 years ago

See http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/06/04/activity-is-the-new-download/ for more details on this.

	Thomas D. (:thomas8)
	Comment 4 • 11 years ago

Marcel (assignee), are you going to pick this up again?

	Thomas D. (:thomas8)
	Comment 5 • 11 years ago

For starters, what if we just added some (iconic) link into status bar for opening activity manager?

Sounds simple enough with big benefit - ux-papercut candidate!

	Thomas D. (:thomas8)
	Comment 6 • 11 years ago

setting needinfo flag

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #4)
> Marcel (assignee), are you going to pick this up again?

	Thomas D. (:thomas8)
	Comment 7 • 11 years ago

Tentative quick search for bugs related to status bar:

:thun,mail su:"status bar"

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%3Athun%2Cmail%20su%3A%22status%20bar%22&list_id=6612263

	Aruna
	Comment 8 • 7 years ago

Could you elaborate more on this?

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 9 • 7 years ago

The specs got no further than https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Interactive_Status_Bar 
The blog post is no longer available

	Aruna
	Comment 10 • 7 years ago

Hey!!
I would like to work on this, but I need a starting point and a history of what has already been worked upon in this enhancement feature, and what more needs to be added.

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 11 • 7 years ago

(In reply to Aruna from comment #10)
> Hey!!
> I would like to work on this, but I need a starting point and a history of
> what has already been worked upon in this enhancement feature, and what more
> needs to be added.

We'd welcome your help in coding this.  Nothing has been coded. And all of the relevant comments, bugs and reference URLs are cited here in this bug.  If you want more info on how to get started, suggest you visit IRC and ask
https://chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.mozilla.org&channel=%23maildev


(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #9)
> ...
> The blog post is no longer available

But visible at https://web.archive.org/web/20160426141003/http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/06/04/activity-is-the-new-download/

	Aruna
	Comment 12 • 7 years ago

I had some queries which I wanted to clarify before proceeding with this. 
The status bar, that is to be worked upon is for the mail? Or is it common for all- chat, mail,newsgroup etc?
if it is for the mail then the changes have to be made in comm-central/mail/themes/linux/mail?
If not, then where are the changes to be made?

	Aruna
	Comment 13 • 7 years ago

Can you shed some light on what kind of features are expected to be there in the status bar, to give me a headstart?

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 14 • 7 years ago

(In reply to Aruna from comment #13)
> Can you shed some light on what kind of features are expected to be there in
> the status bar, to give me a headstart?

Suggest you first look at the old documents and the advice you got on IRC, then post a proposed design and attach a screen shot mockup, and ask paenglab for feedback

https://web.archive.org/web/20160426141003/http://clarkbw.net/blog/2008/06/04/activity-is-the-new-download/ for example was pretty specific and has many comments attached to it.