114476 - Improve Discoverability of other Components

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P1)

Description

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

This is a tracking bug for work needed to Improve Discoverability of other
Components.

No Estimate.

Comment 1

[Peter Trudelle]

->jag/p1/099

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

somewhat related: bug 108099 for reorganizing toplevel menus.

Comment 3

[Peter Trudelle]

nsbeta1+ per ADT triage team

Comment 4

[jag (Peter Annema)]

-> 1.0

Comment 5

[jag (Peter Annema)]

For a rough sketch, see:

http://rocknroll.mcom.com/users/marlon/publish/componentdiscovery/

Filed:

bug 128959: add icons to components in tasks menu
bug 128960: add mail/news (and AIM) next to the home button
bug 128962: add collapsing functionality to personal toolbar separator
bug 128964: change component bar to dropdown list

Comment 6

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Sorry, not bug 128962, but bug 128963:

bug 128963: add collapsing functionality to personal toolbar separator

Comment 7

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Oh, and I'll see if we can publish that rough sketch somewhere publically
accessible.

Comment 8

[Alex Bishop]

I somehow managed to stop this bug depending on bug 128960, presumably when I
added a comment to bug 128960. This confuses me as I didn't get any sort of
mid-air collision warning. Correcting.

Comment 9

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

The last est. was 5 days on 03/13. What are the chances this will get in by 04/01? 

Comment 10

[jag (Peter Annema)]

a= has been requested for bug 128959 (add icons to tasks menu). I have 
started on http://bugscape/show_bug.cgi?id=12847 (add mail and AIM to the left 
of the personal toolbar) and am about 40% done with that.

Comment 11

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

bug 128959 has r/sr/a=, and adt1.0.0+. How are we doing on the bugscape bug?

Comment 12

[Ian Pottinger]

adding self to cc list

Comment 13

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Can we consider this resolved for the MachV PRD because bug 128959 (add icons to
tasks menu) and http://bugscape/show_bug.cgi?id=12847 are now fixed?

Comment 14

[jag (Peter Annema)]

I'd say fixed.

Comment 15

[Peter Lairo]

Calling this bug fixed is pretty lame (sorry). Discoverable (to me) means
"prominently visible at all times" - the component bar is too small and out of
the way to count.

This bug has the potential to remedy a major drawback of Mozilla for novice users.

Comment 16

[jag (Peter Annema)]

The component bar wasn't enough to begin with, which is why we've looked for
other ways of improving the discoverability. The main solutions (the ones we
could implement for Mozilla 1.0 / MachV, anyway) are:

1. Put a mail icon on the desktop
2. Put a mail icon in the quicklaunch area (on Windows) next to the Start button
3. Put the mail icon up in the personal toolbar (together with AIM)
   Note: Mozilla didn't want this, so it'll only be in Netscape.
4. Put the mail icon in the Window menu to provide visual links between the icon
there, the one on the desktop and the one in the component bar.

If it turns out this doesn't suffice, we'll file a new bug.

Comment 17

[Paul Wyskoczka]

Verifying (rs)