170067 - Clarify / rename "Navigation Toolbar".

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Jason Bassford]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020919
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020919

(This would have gone under UI Design, but since that's no longer valid I wasn't
sure where it would fit.)

The Navigation Toolbar needs to be renamed to something appropriate.  As it
stands, its name is causing inconsistencies in design approach.  Currently we
have the following buttons on the "Navigation" bar:  Back, Forward, Reload,
Stop, URL, Print, Search, and Throbber.

1. Marlon closed bug 164868 "because" the Home button was not a navigational
tool and would not put it on the "Navigation" Toolbar.  Yet, Print and Search
are certainly NOT navigational tools either, however they remain.

2. MPT closed bug 164868 "because" Stop and Reload are not navigational commands
and don't belong under the "Go" menu - yet both Stop and Reload remain on the
"Navigational" Toolbar.

Regardless of the inconsistency between these two stances (they can't *both* be
right because then either the Home button should be allowed on the "Navigation"
toolbar, or the Stop and Reload should be taken off) one thing is certain.  The
title of the "Navigation" toolbar is causing confusion.

Is it designed for navigational tools only?  If so, it should keep it's name and
the logical consequences should follow (currently existing non-navigational
tools should be taken off); if not, it should be renamed to something
appropriate ("Main", "Site", etc.) and, again, the logical consequences should
follow (Home button issue revisited).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jonas Jørgensen]

Unless we rename it, we'd logically have to remove every button except Back and
Forward.

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".

Comment 3

[:Hb]

Time has told that this bad name was the best of all alternatives which were worse.