170462 - combine links + toolbar

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Brian Crescimanno]

Users should have the option of displaying their toolbar / location bar and
"personal toolbar" on the same bar.  There's no reason that users should be
forced to keep them separate.  So instead of:

[buttons][location][spinner]
[link] [link] [link] ...

they could conceivably have:

[buttons][location][spinner][link][link]...

Comment 1

[Brian Crescimanno]

This should probably apply to the menu (file, edit, etc.) bar as well.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I proposed this a while ago when we were designing the feature. I suggested a
<link containing thing> as a button available in the customizable toolbar
dialog. In a world with multiple configurable toolbar something like that might
have made sense. It doesn't in the design that's been chosen so this will
probably be marked won'tfix. 

It is up to the Module Owner to decide, though. 

Hyatt?

Comment 3

[Brian Crescimanno]

I understand where you're coming from (sort of, I suppose if I knew more about
the intended design, I would know more).

However, I'm an admin over at Customize.org, and we've been showing off Phoenix
to our users since last night, and the number 1 question that's been asked of us
is "can I move those toolbars around?"

I wouldn't necessarily call it a priority item, but if your goal is to give the
user the best possible experience, that's one option that shouldn't be taken
away from them.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

so what you're asking for is multiple dockable toolbars. Hyatt has already said
that we're not doing that, at least not any time soon. 

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

while we don't have dockable toolbars you may be pleased to see that tomorrow's
builds will let you move all these items (not the menubar) to the same toolbar
in the customization window.

Comment 6

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

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