1173308 - Investigate if showing the toolbar/tabbar/buttons vertically when docked to the side is a good idea

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Framework, defect)

Description

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

When docked to the side, it's fair to assume that the toolbox is higher than it is wide, and therefore, there's more space along the vertical axis than there is horizontally.

Right now, the top toolbox toolbar is displayed at the top, just like in any dock mode, which means that most of the times, the tool tabs + buttons are packed in a small area, making it difficult to see all the tools.

So, moving the tabbar to the side instead would help I think.

Also, it would make it possible to have the minimize mode (bug 867838) or pin mode (bug 1173303) when the toolbox is docked to the side too (right now it only works in bottom-docking).