Fix tickets #7983 (disabled Find button) and #7982 (attachment removing unclear) in Mail application.
completed by: Alex11223
mentors: Siarhei Zharski
Your task is:
- Setup Haiku in Virtual Machine (Virtual Box recommended) or on real hardware;
- Download standalone version of Haiku Mail application from the link below;
- Take familiar with the code and both problems description;
- Use make to build the application. Resulting executable binary you'll find in 'objects-...' directory;
- To reproduce the #7983 - open the Mail application, drop some paragraphs of text from clipboard and press Alt-F - the dialog should appear - put some text to search - the Find button is not become enable. You should fix this;
- To reproduce the #7982 - open Mail application drop some files on it - they will be in the list of attachment. Now press with the right mouse click - context menu should appear proposing to delete attachment. The problem is that corresponding attachment was not selected - and this may confuse user. You should improove this.
Links:
- https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7983 - disabled Find button on very first call;
- https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7982 - select the attachment to be deleted from context menu on right click;
- http://siarzhuk.dyndns.org/mail-gci-kit-08.12.2011.tar.bz2 - standalone version of Mail application project;
- http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/apps/mail - sources of Haiku version of Mail;
- http://haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/index.html - BeBook - system API reference;
- http://haiku-os.org/development - information about development for Haiku;
- http://haiku-os.org/development/coding-guidelines - Haiku Coding Guidelines;
Good luck!