209165 - close sidebar tab on click of open sidebar tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 34925

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Tandler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

If a sidebar tab is opened, it should be possible to close it again by clicking
again at the title. (Just as the "explorer" tabs in StarOffice worked.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the "bookmarks" sidebar tab
2. Click again on the "bookmarks" sidebar tab

Actual Results:  
The "bookmark" sidebar tab is still open

Expected Results:  
The "bookmark" sidebar tab is closed again, and the one below is opened instead.

This is another idea to solve the problem of long mouse travel times when
switching to another tab (see Bug 132068).

Comment 1

[Jason M. Abels]

This is not a bug. The sidebar is designed to always keep at least one sidebar
tab open, so that it fills the entire space of the sidebar. Since this is the
expected behavior, it is not a bug.

Comment 2

[Peter Tandler]

Ok, maybe my description was not precise enough ... what about this one:

If a sidebar tab is opened, it should be possible to close it by clicking
again at the title, as long as it is not the last (lowest) tab. When the tab is
closed the one below must be opened instead.

This allows to easily switch between tabs using the mouse -- without having to
move the mouse between the top and bottom of the sidebar.

... better to understand?

Comment 3

[Jason M. Abels]

Yes, that sounds reasonable. However, since this intended behavior, and not a
bug, I've changed the Severity to "enhancment".

Confirming.

Comment 4

[Stefan Borggraefe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34925 ***