232920 - fix browser default window size and remove print button from toolbar [mac ui]

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

On Mac OS X, the initial browser window is just horribe (see attachment 1 [details] [diff] [review]). The
window dimensions are too narrow to see more than the first few characters of
the URL in the address field (http://www.mozi).

This is also a problem on other platforms but is made particularly bad on the
Mac because of the native-like search button on the primary toolbar. 

Ideally, we'd start up on Mac OS X with the window zoomed (maximized in Windows
speak). Right now we don't zoom intelligently like Safari (I believe Safari
calls in to the rendering engine and figures out some ideal width for the
content currently displayed and resizes only out to that ideal value) and until
we do that more intelligent behavior (rather than the current "available minus
10%",) we shouldn't start zoomed. (bug 232919 for SeaMonkey, bug 155956 for Camino).

There are some adjustments that we can make while we work on that longer-term
solutions. 

The first change would be to size the initial window to something greater than
the current 610x470. I'd recommend at least 800x620 to more closely match Safari
and Camino default widths (see attachment 2 [details] [diff] [review]). I'm told that we have code that
prevents us from sizing ourselves too large for the available screen so that
shouldn't be a worry. 

We might also consider going taller than 620 until we get zoom working as it
should. 

In addition to the new window size, we should pull the Print button from the
primary toolbar and consider pulling Search too (though Search is a bit more
controversial and it shouldn't hold up this bug).  Print on the toolbar is a
hold-over from a counter-usability Netscape marketing decision and there's no
reason to keep that on the toolbar (and it might also be a good idea to remove
it as a toolbar button completely).

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Attachment: screenshot of default osx first window

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Attachment: browser at 800x620, print removed

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 4

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

The browser window is ok now, but I wouldn't mind if the print button was absent.