115265 - Display the Sidebar as an Aqua-style "Drawer" on Mac OS X

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, enhancement)

Description

[m_mozilla]

see screenshot of OmniWeb
http://www.omnigroup.com/images/applications/omniweb/FullScreen.jpg

note bookmarks drawer on right side of browser window.

Drawer would contain all sidebar content for mozilla

advantage: web page content size not diminished when accessing sidebar, content
does not need to be re-flowed to new size

-matt

Comment 1

[Samir Gehani]

The floating sidebar idea.  It has been discussed and even implemented once at
least.  Marlon, Todd, what do you'll think?

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Samir, just to be certain, Reporter doesn't mean the floating windows, he's
referring to the Aqua "drawer" sticking out of the right edge of the window.

Setting as Enhancement.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Setting this to block bug 73812 for the moment.

Comment 4

[TommyBee (No E-mail)]

Filed bug 122722 for the mailbox pane to be displayed as a drawer as well.

Comment 5

[marlon bishop]

exactly what the drawer is for. I would consider this a big win for osx.

Comment 6

[Avi Drissman]

The problem is that drawers are currently only available to Cocoa applications.
Given that Mozilla is a Carbon application, this will not be possible unless
either Mozilla is changed to use Cocoa (a rather large undertaking) or Apple
provides drawer support to Carbon apps (no timeframe yet for that).

Comment 7

[Greg K.]

Avi, would this only be possible for Cocoazilla, then?

Comment 8

[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