1125352 - Simplify the repo menu and pinned/bookmarked repo tabs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tree Management :: Treeherder: Frontend, defect, P3)

Description

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

The current pinned repo design was largely because we had multi-repo-in-one-tab support. That has since been removed, leaving the pinned repos as glorified bookmarks, which still look like tabs (which causes confusion, eg bug 1093895).

I think we should revisit the overall workflow and decide how to handle repo selection/display.

eg: Should we allow people to favourite repos or stick with the "most recently used" of TBPL?

Also, the current design is confusing (eg people don't understand what the checkboxes do in the repo menu) and more heavy-weight than it needs be - ie: the repo menu has to be clicked open and then clicked shut, rather than just being able to hover and ctrl+click a few other repos then move the mouse away to let it close.

Related bugs:
Bug 1093895 - Pinned repos look like tabs but act like bookmarks (eg they don't save state)
Bug 1066377 - Further cleanup of the repos menu
Bug 1030953 - The repo tab bar obscures job data if too many repos are watched
Bug 1033269 - Give the watched repo tabs a link target, so they can be opened in a new tab
Bug 1045686 - Repo menu: Separate out repos for other projects (eg Thunderbird)

This bug also likely overlaps with bug 1050841, since replacing the repo tabs with a simpler favourites list would make the toolbars a lot smaller.