103543 - toolbars need side scrollers for tabs, and personal toolbar for example, and dynamic linkbar elements.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 66919

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[[not reading bugmail]]

what happens when if you are adding site dynamic stuff like tabs once the
toolbar is out past the webbrowser size.. what will you do.  (I think toolbars
by themselves should have ([<] tool bar content in middle [>]) i.e. side
scrollers.. Tabs will suck because of the lack of side scrollers too.  See
summary too.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Other possible ways to solve the problem:
bug 12759 make the toolbar taller
bug 66919 make a menu at the right end of the toolbar containing the items that 
overflowed

Comment 2

[[not reading bugmail]]

bug 79961 - toolbar areas in message panel windows would benefit from such a fix

Comment 3

[[not reading bugmail]]

I would like to really have this and bug 12759 options, maybe user selectable in
the preferences panel?  I'd also sometimes would like the solution under bug 12759.

Comment 4

[[not reading bugmail]]

I know I already have too many links in the Personal Toolbar in 1280x1024 that
go past the edge of the window.  I'd like to have this kinda of solution.  IE
has a Links bar that would use bug 66919 as like the options with the back and
forward buttons (history) and for Mail panes I'd probably perfer fix in bug 12759.

i'd say implement all three and use them in different ways, and also have user
selectable preferences.. that way it will fix all the problems.

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

What a cool idea. The preferences could look something like this:

 _Overflow ickiness______________________________________
|                                                        |
| Mozilla's designers are too incompetent to decide what |
| should happen to a toolbar or row of tabs when there's |
| not enough room for all of them. We know you're        |
| probably not a designer, but we'll annoy you anyway by |
| making you work out the problem yourself:              |
| (*) make multiple rows of items or tabs, as shown in   |
|     the User Interface Hall of Shame                   |
|     <http://iarchitect.com/tabs.htm#TAB3>              |
| ( ) scroll the items or tabs, as shown in the User     |
|     Interface Hall of Shame                            |
|     <http://iarchitect.com/tabs.htm#TAB7>              |
| ( ) make the overflowing items a menu at the end of    |
|     the bar or tab row                                 |
+--------------------------------------------------------+

Ahem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66919 ***

Comment 6

[[not reading bugmail]]

very good example & pun matt, thats not what I meant by letting the user decide,
although that is what I said.  

I wanted to mean that the developer could implement either solution for any
given task or project because all three option are available, and besides we
already use the right side pulldown in the Navigation Bar.

If the user were to use mail, then the dev set the method=scroll bars on the
window pane; if the user is using tabs then the dev would set it to use the
method=sidescrolling; if the user is to use personal toolbar the dev should set
it to the right dropdown option; 

side scrolling it should be on 1 on each end like the scrollbar is already.. not
like your #Tab7 example side scrollers.. those we hate in Windows programs.

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I am going to disagree about the dup because it is not the same solution as bug
66919 as it appears to brainstorm autoscrolling for the bookmarks this would be
in place to create that method vs the dropdown list as in bug 66919.

Comment 7

[[not reading bugmail]]

Matt for the life of me, I cant understand why you are so quick about getting
rid of suggestions that come along and their implementations?  I dont wanna
argue about this but I think that we should get more feedback on the subject for
each idea and see what the concensus of the community is.  Maybe more people
might prefer 1 button side-scrolling to drop/downs or level/tabs or auto-scrolling.

Comment 8

[[not reading bugmail]]

or visa versa.. not saying this the best way to tackle the issue either, but it
should be easy to create a general toolbar add-on that would allow modifications
to either method of overflow.

Comment 9

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Yes, it would be easy, but it would be wrong.

Comment 10

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

VERIFIED DUPLICATE

Comment 11

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

*** Bug 153601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***