195847 - Integrate manual entry of prefs into preferences window and remove some of the UI for prefs

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

I'm tired of the prefs UI arguments slowing down development. The preferences
window should have a member of the tree at the very bottom with a field like this:

+------Manually edit a preference ----------------------------+
|                                                             |
| Name: [                ]   Value: [                    ]    |
|                                                             |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+

The idea behind this is to make the manual editing of prefs something the would
be transparent to the average user. Doing that would take a lot of pressure for
the preferences UI and could mean we could remove a lot of UI in the window and
stop fighting over it.

This bug would be an easy fix with a lot of impact.

See also bug for listing the preferences: bug 195845 - about:prefs

Comment 1

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

-> me

Comment 2

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

kirun said there is an attempt at this on about:config.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

That was bug 107418, fixed on Jan 16.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

w4m via about:config.