1306064 - Reduce min-width of sidebar panel

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Inspector, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Follow up to Bug 1303732.

(In reply to Helen V. Holmes (:helenvholmes) (:✨) from comment #3)
> (In reply to Julian Descottes [:jdescottes] from comment #2)
> > I think we swapped the min-width for the markup view and the sidebar panel:
> > - min-width for markup-view was 50px and is now 275px
> > - min-width for side panel was 300px and is now 50px
> > 
> > Helen: We could simply restore the previous values, but I remember
> > discussions on #devtools regarding our minimum dimensions and letting users
> > resize panels as they want (even if it means making some panels unusable
> > when resized to very small dimensions). What do you think we should do here?
> > Restore the previous values, or settle on smaller min-width (50px for both?)
> 
> I'd be fine with a smaller min-widths for both, although I think that at
> that small a size it would be a nice enhancement to snap close the sidebar
> panel. (I assume if you're making it that small you just want it out of the
> way.)

The goal of this bug is to reduce the min width of the sidebar panel of the inspector in order to let users resize panels more freely.

We should also discuss the enhancement proposed by Helen above.

Comment 1

[taoso]

Six years has gone. Is there any plan to fix the bug?