1872909 - Commit to deemphasized descriptive text pattern in preferences that has already been introduced under Search settings in order to improve information architecture

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Jules Simplicio [:jules]]

Attachment: deemphasized description example.png

I've discussed with Dão (Theme and Search engineering) that we should commit to the deemphasized text design pattern introduced for Search prefs throughout about:preferences and beyond. Making use of descriptive text pattern could greatly improve the information architecture of settings by having clear stylistic distinction descriptive text and form labels and options, and ultimately this would promote groups of settings to show up uniformly/in the same fashion throughout settings.

This work would include us committing that description tags and classes utilize the deemphasized text color token.

Comment 1

[Jules Simplicio [:jules]]

Attachment: WIP: Bug 1872909 - Commit to deemphasized descriptive text pattern in preferences that has already been introduced under Search settings in order to improve information architecture r?#settings-reviewers,#desktop-theme-reviewers

Comment 2

[Jules Simplicio [:jules]]

Attachment: Bug 1872909 - Commit to deemphasized descriptive text pattern in preferences that has already been introduced under Search settings in order to improve information architecture r?#settings-reviewers,#desktop-theme-reviewers

Depends on D197614

Comment 3

[Jules Simplicio [:jules]]

Attachment: addons description.png

Comment 4

[Jules Simplicio [:jules]]

Figure I'd include a picture of this well established description text pattern in addons as well.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/337d90568478
Commit to deemphasized descriptive text pattern in preferences that has already been introduced under Search settings in order to improve information architecture r=settings-reviewers,desktop-theme-reviewers,dao,Gijs

Comment 6

[Serban Stanca [:SerbanS]]

Backed out for causing mochitests failures in browser_experimental_features.js.

• Backout link
• Push with failures
• Failure Log
• Failure line: TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | browser/components/preferences/tests/browser_experimental_features.js | no-results-message should not be in search results -

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/65fd8f6a9778
Commit to deemphasized descriptive text pattern in preferences that has already been introduced under Search settings in order to improve information architecture r=settings-reviewers,desktop-theme-reviewers,dao,Gijs

Comment 8

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/65fd8f6a9778