18054 - Soft UI Changes Tracking Bug

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Tracking, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

This tracks bugs which allow the user to change the user interface without
changing the underlying skin.

These are generally simpler to do than editing XUL/CSS, but also allow
customisation of a skin on a read-only drive, and allow easy restoration to
previous behaviour since the skin in untouched.  Examples of soft UI changes
already in the product include View > Sidebar and View > Toolbars > ... .

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Adding tree widget soft UI changes, I'm assuming these are persistent ...

For anyone interested, "soft ui changes" don't include things like bug #17920,
since that is just editing a data source (bookmarks), rather than the UI for
displaying data as such.  So deleting a message is not a soft UI change, but
changing the columns that display for each is ...

Comment 2

[leger]

Resetting QA contact from leger.

Comment 3

[Paul MacQuiddy]

spam: changing qa contact from ckritzer -> paulmac for xul bugs

Comment 4

[leger]

BULK MOVE: Changing component from XUL to XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL.  XUL 
component will be deleted.

Comment 5

[leger]

Changing Assignee from [e-mail] to [e-mail]

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

[Shouldn't this bug be in `XP Miscellany'? It's not really an XUL issue.]

Comment 7

[Paul MacQuiddy]

*IGNORE* - massive spam changing open XPToolkit bug's QA contact to
[e-mail]

Comment 8

[John Morrison]

Is this bug really being actively monitored. (If it is, then fine, but otherwise
perhaps it can just be closed).

Comment 9

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I was going to convert this to a keyword but I was going to wait to do a bulk
change, and querying on dependencies is currently busted.

Comment 10

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

It is done (manually).

Comment 11

[John Morrison]

verified invalid (obsoleted). Thanks.