Comment 93 for bug 691380

(In reply to comment #88)
> (In reply to comment #84)
> > I don't think I'm going to go through all the effort to make a working
> > demo ;), but if we're going to move all the quick filter bar buttons
> > somewhere else (floating bar, dropdown),
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Maybe this wasn't clear to you, but this is simply an *alternative* to the
> current Quickfilter toolbar - it creates a separate, standalone searchbox
> widget that would behave according to the demos Thomas has created.
>
> The existing toolbar would not be affected by the implementation of this bug in
> the least.

I know that, but that shouldn't preclude discussion about better ways to present the filters.

> > why not make it look more like the bookmark popup in Firefox?
>
> Not sure what you mean, but this bug is complicated enough without adding a
> third option... but by all means feel free to open a new bug/feature request...

I mean like this: http://en.flossmanuals.net/floss/publish/Firefox/rsrc/Firefox/bookmarks/FFBookmark03_EditDialog_1.png . Obviously, it would have some differences, but this style of popup is already used for the "floating collection of widgets that you can play with", and using it would be more visually consistent.

Besides, I think it would be fairly silly to create a new bug to "fix" a UI element that hasn't actually been added to Thunderbird yet.