147155 - Previewing "What's related" sidebar tab should do something

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)

Description

[Phil Housley]

Currently, the preview of the "What's related" tab (Customize sidebar dialog)
seems to just show an empty tab.  This should really do something to show users
what it means, as I don't think it's totally self explanatory.

Maybe it could just contain a textual description of the tab?  If it could do
this whenever it had nothing to do (ie. no page to find related links for) such
as when you start the browser, it would solve two problems at once.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

trunk 2002052508 XP: Confirming.
The preview shows a sidebar tab with nothing in in, just white.

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

retargeting

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIRDFService.GetResource]"  nsresult:
"0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://communicator/content/sidebar/sidebarOverlay.js :: SidebarTogglePanel ::
line 1290"  data: no]

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

The point of the What's Related panel is that it shows you pages related to the
page currently loaded in the browser. Now its way of observing the browser is
somewhat out of date as it doesn't work correctly with the tabbed browser.
However in particular if there is nothing loaded in the browser, or, as here, no
browser, then the panel doesn't know what to do and simply stays blank.

Comment 5

[Phil Housley]

(In reply to comment #4)
> The point of the What's Related panel is that it shows you pages related to the
> page currently loaded in the browser. Now its way of observing the browser is
> somewhat out of date as it doesn't work correctly with the tabbed browser.
> However in particular if there is nothing loaded in the browser, or, as here, no
> browser, then the panel doesn't know what to do and simply stays blank.

I haven't actually used the suite since about 1.4 or so, but this sounds the
same as always, which was why I reported it.  The point of the bug is that this
sidebar tab shouldn't be blank, and in particular shouldn't be blank in the
preview window.

Comment 6

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008011303 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)

Bug (as reported) still there:
"F9 > Tabs > Customize Sidebar... > What's Related > Preview...".

*(OS) Windows 98 -> Windows 2000.
*(T.M.) Future -> ---.

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> chrome://communicator/content/sidebar/sidebarOverlay.js :: SidebarTogglePanel ::
> line 1290"  data: no]

I filed bug 412221 about this exception.

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

This has been INVALIDated by removing the "What's related" sidebar in bug 468337.