61846 - Undockable My Sidebar - in a new window

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, enhancement)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

My friend was complaining to me about the My Sidebar, so I think that I will 
add this bug. Therefore - for him ;-) - the sidebar should be able to be 
undocked from the browser window by right clicking on My Sidebar. Then you can 
drag it around, etc. When you bring it back to the window it catches on (like 
undocable toolbars for windows programs).

He was complaining that he hates MSIE's toolbars, and that all the stuff on My 
Sidebar should be seperate. BTW - he loves NS 4.x (go figure). There is already 
a bug to make the My Sidebar be able to be loaded onto a web page, but no bug 
for this that I know of. 

BTW - I know you are going to mark it duplicate of something. So go ahead, make 
my day ;-)

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of 38805 "my.sidebar - Allow sidebar to live in its own window"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38805 ***

Comment 2

[timeless]

vrfy dupe

Comment 3

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

No no no. I wrote this bug after I replied to that one. Obviously you can tell I
do not view this as a duplicate if I did that. That bug has nothing to do with
mine. He wanted a way to view all the Sidebar content on a web page. People
wrote the summary incorrectly. Reopening. Wack me if I am misreading his bug.

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

confirming. not the same bug.

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

BTW: This is what Netscape implemented for AIM. But it is not in Mozilla.

Comment 6

[shrirang khanzode]

spam : changing qa to sujay (New Sidebar QA)

Comment 7

[Chris Lyon]

*** Bug 23215 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 115315 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[timeless]

i have a floating sidebar/component bar. bz had a semi current copy.
unfortunately my computer is stuck in @home limbo. fwiw the archive is 4k

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

reassigning matt's old bugs.

Comment 11

[Koike Kazuhiko]

Try this "Floating sidebar".
http://www.cc-net.or.jp/~piro/xul/_floatingsidebar.html

Comment 12

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I mailed who seems to be the author of the above implementation. It looks very
good, suitable for inclusion, but I didn't try it myself. Neither did I try the
following:

<http://www.deskmod.com/?show=showskin&skin_id=11108>.

Comment 13

[Campanella]

I tried the deskmod sidebar(Comment #12 URL). It is excellent.  The author of it 
is Neil Rashbrook.  He seems to be the project owner of XULmine.

<http://xulmine.mozdev.org/>

Comment 14

[OHTUBO Junpei]

Attachment: The patch incorporates "Sidebar Window" into Mozilla.

SHIMODA 'Piro' Hiroshi who is the author of "Sidebar Window" made the patch. It
incorporates his product into Mozilla.I attach this patch as a substitute for
him.

Comment 15

[OHTUBO Junpei]

Attachment: The icon for the dock button (dock.png)

Comment 16

[OHTUBO Junpei]

Attachment: The icon for the undock button.(undock.png)

Comment 17

[OHTUBO Junpei]

It is a supplement. "Sidebar Window" is called "Floating sidebar".

Comment 18

[Koike Kazuhiko]

Now "Sidebar window" by piro is here.
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_sidebar.en.html

Comment 19

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Does bug 183333 depend on this?

Comment 20

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

no, unrelated

Comment 21

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

I am not sure if I agree because for the sidebar to be able to open up on
left-screen hover, it needs to be removed from the window so that it can pop
open above the web page's frame (just like the taskbar does in windows) and not
interfere with the size of the web page, and also dissappear when you move the
mouse away.

I'll draw a picture of what I'm talking about in bug 183333 since I think I need
to clarify what I'm asking for.

Comment 22

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

No activity (other than CC change and mass-transfer from Browser to Seamonkey later renamed M.A.Suite) since 2002.

Anyone still interested in seeing this bug fixed?
Anyone still willing to fix this bug?

Please speak up if you are.

Comment 23

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

No reply to comment #22 in 25 days -- resetting A+QA