154862 - Drawer state (opened) does not persist btwn sessions

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

tested using 2002.06.27.05 chimera bits.

1. launch chimera, and open the Sidebar (click toolbar button or cmd+B).
2. quit and restart chimera.

results: the Sidebar is closed upon restart.

i'm not sure what the ui guidelines would be here, but should we persist the
Sidebar state btwn sessions?

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using Chimera/20020625.

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

what does omniweb do? is this really a polish issue for preview?

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

OmniWeb 4.1 doesn't persist drawer state between launches. However, Apple Mail
does. I'd have to say I'd go with storing the state. Not storing it would be
like setting up tool palettes in Photoshop or Office and having to redo them
after every launch (though on a much smaller scale, naturally).

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

i don't think we want to do this at all. it would mean that when you have one
window open with the sidebar, opening another window will also have the sidebar
open. why don't we wait for some feedback. nobody has yet complained about this.

Comment 5

[Steve Dagley]

Drawer state is definitely supposed to be window specific.  Persistency is in
the eye of the beholder er, implementation.  I think mail.app _has_ to keep it
open otherwise most folks would never realize they have multiple mail folders. 
Nominating for WONTFIX.

Comment 6

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Before finally marking this WONTFIX, how about this:
Persist the open/closed state of the sidebar for the last window closed. In the
nexte session, use this state for the first window. Thereafter, make every new
window with a closed sidebar. Thoughts?

Comment 7

[Steve Dagley]

Correcting summary because on Mac OS X it's a drawer damnit :-)

I could live with persisting the last closed window's state but won't that
confuse people that wonder why only the first window they open gets a visible
drawer?  And by next session do you mean the next time they open a window after
closing one or the next time they run Chimera?

Comment 8

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

i think it will be confusing to do the behavior sfraser described. people will
never really know the pattern as to when the drawer will be open and when not.
it will appear random and buggy, even if we know it's not.

WONTFIX.

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

okidokes, v.