
They do not directly translate into an operating system process or Thunderbird thread and therefore can be comprised of many different parts of which are actually separate processes internally. Processes are vague notions of activity and provided for the users benefit. There are 2 different classifications of activity items which can be displayed in the Activity Manager Window. Thunderbird:Activity Manager/Window - displays a more detailed summary of activity for each process and event with relevant actions for each itemĮvents are persistent in the Activity Manager, they should be saved for a set period of time which can be determined after some performance work and testing.ĭevelopment for the Activity Manager can be tracked in bug 257942 Activity Items.Thunderbird:Interactive Status Bar - displays important events and process activity to the user.The activity manager works in conjunction with the Thunderbird:Interactive Status Bar to give the user the right level of notifications concerning what Thunderbird is doing on it's own and how Thunderbird has handled user requests.

Is a simple component that understands how do display a combination of user activity and history.
