120284 - [osx classic] Search button should be a different type of button

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, enhancement)

Description

[Philip Hoyt]

<p>Using 2002011508. The Aqua widgets are nice, but I argue that simply putting
functional buttons (Mozilla and search buttons, for example) in water droplets
is not in keeping with the Aqua UI.</p>
<p>Buttons on the browser button bar should, rather, be colourful, big, 3-d
pictures on a flat background. Have a look at Omniweb, it has one of the few
pure Aqua UIs. "Porting" these buttons from Platinum would consist in getting
rid of the mouseover state, making the active state a simple darkening of the
image, and possibly increasing the size and colour depth of the existing icons.</p>

Comment 1

[Warren TenBrook]

The reporter is correct; none of the build 2002012808 classic theme navigation
toolbar widgets strictly follow Aqua UI.  'Search' button and Mozilla throbber
are not shaped correctly and should be bevel buttons per:

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/AquaHIGuidelines/AHIGControls/Bevel_Buttons.html

'Back,' 'Forward,' 'Reload,' 'Stop,' and 'Print' should be pop-up buttons
(beveled to match search and throbber) per: 

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/AquaHIGuidelines/AHIGControls/Pop_Up_Icon_vel_Buttons.html

Recommend all buttons in toolbar be consistent size, shape using Aqua
HIG/Interface Builder design.  Currently displayed as three different designs
and does not look polished or unified.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This is really a Mac classic skin design issue. We've talked about getting better 
icons for the Mac classic skin.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Confirming as an RFE for an improved, more Aqua-rific Classic Theme.

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

fwiw, we fixed the moz throbber.

Comment 5

[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

Comment 6

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Still valid, the search button looks really bad.