176224 - RFE: Preferences in a tab (in-content preferences)

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Slater]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021015
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021015

Wouldn't it be more intuitive (especially for novice users) to have the
preferences appear as a webpage in the viewport instead of a separate window?
Similar to what MSN 8 is doing, where entering "Settings" in the location bar
takes you to a local page from which you can change all the settings of the browser.

Any thoughts from usability people on this?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Wesha]

Interesting idea...
==> NEW

Comment 2

[Andreas Kunz]

Something like chrome://communicator/content/pref/pref.xul entered into your URLbar?

Comment 3

[Mark Slater]

Well yeah, but done a bit more neatly. That's just the prefs window, fullscreen.
I would think that a nicely designed page would be better than that pref.xul :)

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

prefs are available as a web page in mozilla. just enter about:config into the
urlbar. is that what you're looking for?

Comment 5

[Mark Slater]

No. Will attach screenshot of MSN 8 'settings' page to show what I'm talking about.

Comment 6

[Mark Slater]

Attachment: Screenshot of MSN 8's "setting" page

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I think that it will be nearly impossible to write any HTML that comes anywhere
close to being as efficient and reasonable-looking as the prefs XUL... but
people are welcome to try it out.

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(Filter "spam" on 'prefs-nobody-20080612'.)