229480 - Improved handling of minimized toolbars

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112534

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Seairth Jacobs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

I apologize if this is a dup (because I have to imagine others have brought this
issue up already).  It is extremely frustrating to go up to a toolbar to click
on the first button and miss it by a few pixels such that the given toolbar
minimizes itself (and doesn't even stay in the same place).  Could a user pref
be added to disable the minimize feature?  An alternative would be for a context
menu to show instead, where "minimize" is one of the options.

While I am at it, when the toolbar does get minimized, could it maybe be say the
toolbar's title in the box instead of as a tooltip?  When more than one toolbar
is minimized, there is no way to know which one is which except to hover over
and wait for the tooltip delay for each toolbar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

disabling the grippies is bug 112534

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

> user pref
> be added to disable the minimize feature?  An alternative would be for a context
> menu to show instead, where "minimize" is one of the options.

duped to bug 112534


> While I am at it, when the toolbar does get minimized, could it maybe be say the
> toolbar's title in the box instead of as a tooltip?  When more than one toolbar
> is minimized, there is no way to know which one is which except to hover over
> and wait for the tooltip delay for each toolbar.

Please file a new bug this one.  Please submit one bug per issue :)


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112534 ***