114521 - tracking bug for Preferences redesign & reorganization, panel content

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

summary sez it all: this meta bug is to track [re]design issues for the
Preferences dialog. will add bug 61362 and bug 71381 as dependents.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

bug 75371: UI prefs to control popups

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 114519 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

bug 46490: changing Cache panel

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

there are several Fonts panel design issues, but here are a few of 'em: bug
113013, bug 33641, bug 61883, bug 54786, bug 33340...

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

bug 80392: tracking bug for pref panels whose content need to fit

bug 57805: UI for remapping keyboard shortcuts --not sure if this would/should
even go within the preferences. but, i thought i'd add it here for the time
being since it deals with settings.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 121324 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

here's a link to jennifer's thorough mailnews prefs UI spec:

http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/prefs/PreferencesP.html

jennifer, is there a tracking/meta bug for these changes/work? if so, it'd be
good to add it as a blocker here... thanks!

Comment 8

[jglick]

Sarah, there aren't bugs for MailNews yet. The redesign is still a proposal 
spec. I will update this bug as this changes.

Comment 9

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 61362 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[R. D. Flowers]

Seems clear we need to --
1. Put elevators on the pref panel    OR
2. Have it calculate needed room and at least expand to fit if feasible   OR
3. Make it resizeable .

Surely, all 3 of these are not infeasible !

This is a BIG credibility and usability killer, and should block wherever it
appears, I say. Needs obsessed on.

Comment 11

[chris hofmann]

too late for 1.6.  let's try for 1.7

Comment 12

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614