1602455 - Alternate layout for Request Information View in Network Monitor

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Netmonitor, enhancement, P3)

Description

[stephan+github]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:68.0) Gecko/68.0 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Network Monitor
2. Click ••• icon and change layout to Dock to Right
3. Perform any http request, eg. visit Wikipedia
4. Double-click on a request line

Actual results:

Now the Network Monitor show together with details about the request, but everything is awfully crammed. This is because the Request Info View is opened to the right of the list of network requests.

Expected results:

Add option to layout Request View below list of network requests. Add simular ••• in Network Monitor with a similar dripdown menu with layout options: Request Info Right of, Request Info Below.

Comment 1

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

Harald, do we want to have such option? The positioning is currently happening on top of hardcoded value (width of the Toolbox).

I am happy to have customizable UI but, we should try hard not to end up in option-hell.

Honza

Comment 2

[:Harald Kirschner :digitarald]

Victoria, this would bring it in line with the responsive layout of other panels. What are your thoughts?

Comment 3

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

I think it would be nice if we could let the user chose which layout they want (in netmonitor, but inspector and style editor also come to mind).

Comment 4

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

This also applies to the multi-line mode of the command line, see bug 1603259, and also the Storage Inspector.

Sebastian