Closed
Bug 1359016
Opened 7 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
Allow to change the position of the hamburger menu button
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(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, enhancement)
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 940418
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(Reporter: sebo, Unassigned)
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As most of the main actions like accessing the Awesomebar, going back and forth in page history and reloading happen on the left side, the way of the mouse cursor is probably most of the time shorter when the main menu button is placed at the left side. Therefore, the hamburger button should be made movable. From a user point of view, I think it would be enough to allow to move the button like any other button, providing the biggest flexibility. Downside is, that if users place it somewhere else and they read some tutorial that says that the button is placed on the right upper side of the browser window, they may get confused. From the programmer's view, I assume this would also make the code and tests a bit simpler, as you wouldn't have to handle the button special anymore in most cases. Challenges here are to handle the different stylings and placements of the menu and to adjust/add/remove related unit tests. Note that this was previously requested in bug 1346488 comment 4. Sebastian
Comment 1•7 years ago
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We don't intend to do this as part of Photon, as we're under schedule pressure and there just isn't time to implement this in addition to everything else we're doing, and that's besides the argument about whether this is actually a good idea. This discussion goes back to pre-Australis, so I'm duping this bug over.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 2•7 years ago
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Egh, wrong dupe. And looks like this was already marked wontfix then. I don't think there are new arguments here that should cause us to reconsider.
No longer blocks: photon-structure
Comment 3•7 years ago
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(In reply to :Gijs from comment #2) > I don't think there are new arguments here that should cause us to reconsider. Maybe there are no (or not a lot of) new arguments, but even Stephen Horlander didn't disagree after the Australis release that such an option does make sense (see the attached screenshot of a public twitter conversation from 2014) :P I think, there *are* at least two new arguments. 1) With Photon the reload/stop button will be on the left side and no longer be part of the address bar, so there is a bigger distance to the menu and that's an argument for mouse users. 2) It was not a big problem that there was no build-in option in Firefox because add-ons like Classic Theme Restorer were able to do provide such an option. But that won't be possible in Firefox 57+. So it's a very different situation, compared to Australis. Based on this, maybe it's really something that can be reconsidered - after the Photon release? I understand that it can't be part of Photon because of the schedule. I really like the new Photon design and the menu button on the right side, but I think it also makes a lot of sense to put the button on the other side and that Mozilla could make a lot of users happy with an option for the menu button placement.
Comment 4•7 years ago
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(In reply to Sören Hentzschel from comment #3) > Created attachment 8861127 [details] > twitter conversation 2014-05-06 > > (In reply to :Gijs from comment #2) > > I don't think there are new arguments here that should cause us to reconsider. > > Maybe there are no (or not a lot of) new arguments, Sören, you know us, we know you, and we appreciate your help - but you should also know that after this many dupes, adding more comments on bugzilla (on a closed dupe rather than the original bug, too) isn't going to help have a sensible discussion about this. > but even Stephen > Horlander didn't disagree after the Australis release that such an option > does make sense (see the attached screenshot of a public twitter > conversation from 2014) :P ... and if you are going to comment anyway, contorting that conversation where Stephen says "Perhaps ;)" to imply that this means he thinks we *should* be doing this isn't a good start, even with a ":P" emoticon.
Alias: movable-hamburger-button
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