234852 - alternate stylesheet status bar item should be more recognizeable as menu

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[pipian]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040213 Firefox/0.8

It's a minor thing, yes, and the hard-core users won't need it, but it would be
helpful (and more user-friendly) to ensure that the alternate-stylesheets icon
in the bottom left of the status bar is more recognizeable as a pop-up menu.

Perhaps you should add an arrow like the Quick Search had added to it (hinting
at old Apple User Interface Guidelines)?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Go to the site.  Note that the alternate stylesheet icon appears in the status
bar.  People may think of it as a mere warning of some sort (like the pop-up
exclamation) instead of as a menu to select another style.

Comment 1

[pipian]

gah...  didn't mean this to go to history...

Comment 2

[Bogdan Stroe]

Confirm this for Firefox.
See also bug 216278.

Comment 3

[Belril Dawnslayer]

Deerpark 1.6.1a unconfirmed. No bug spotted in Firefox.

-Belril

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

If-or-when AltSS comes back, please file a new bug if whatever sort of UI it uses (which is more likely to be the next generation of stuff-things-in-the-urlbar) doesn't look active enough.