Since 'compose in a new window' works via middle-click (or right-click, open in new window/tab), it certainly is possible.

I have no idea about the Right Way to do this.. A proper solution would probably involve modifying the skin so that the compose window does not include the taskbar, and that the Back and Cancel buttons close the window.

Unfortunately, due to the event handlers attached to the anchor (<a href="./?_task=mail&amp;_action=compose" ...), you can't simply add the "rel" attribute or a class, then use some simple javascript to set the anchor's target attribute to "_blank". (I tried but it didn't work for me.)

I'm still using 0.1, but I think the key is this function in program/js/app.js: this.redirect = function(url, lock) {...}

You probably to add an additional parameter to that function to open URLs in a new window. Then you would need some way to pass that parameter in when constructing the compose action. Finally, based on the "newwindow" parameter, instead of the default "location.href = url;", you would call "window.open(url)".

As a quick and dirty hack, I modified the function, just to test this out:

this.redirect = function(url, lock) { if (lock || lock === null) this.set_busy(true);

if (this.env.framed && window.parent) {
  parent.location.href = url;
}
else {
  if (/_action=compose/.test(url)) // HACK!! Don't do it this way!
    window.open(url);
  else
    location.href = url;
}

};

However, personally I enjoy that roundcube stays in one window, and if I choose to open a new window via middle-click, I can. (That is how I prefer most of the web, as window.open() is often blocked to prevent pop-ups.)

good luck. -gnul

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Kris Steinhoff steinhof@umich.edu wrote:

We (the University of Michigan) launched RoundCube today as a webmail option. In this first day, more that 20,000 users have tried RoundCube for the first time. We have received a lot of feedback, the much of it is enthusiastically positive.

Many people have asked that a separate window be used for message composition. We are looking into implementing this functionality. I've created a ticket in trac:

http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485486

Does anyone have any perspective or guidance they'd like to share about implementing this?

many thanks -kris

See also: http://lists.roundcube.net/mail-archive/dev/2008-10/0000010.html http://roundcubeforum.net/requests/3362-compose-optionally-open-new-window.h...

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