23973 - Annoying placement of next/finish button

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect, P3)

Description

[John G. Myers]

The Mozilla profile manager has four buttons:

        [cancel] [back] [next] [finish]

For the first dialog box, [finish] is disabled and [next] is enabled, for the
second dialog box [next] is disabled and [finish] is enabled.  This causes the
user to have to move the cursor from the [next] button to the [finish] button.

A much more user-friendly design is in the mailnews account wizard, where the
[finish] button *replaces* the [next] button.

Comment 1

[selmer (gone)]

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Comment 2

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

this was tried and is not consistent with the set of features required by many
wizards (including, eventually, this one). finish may be enabled not at the end
of a sequence but also at such a point in the wizard progression where the user
is able to leave the sequence without going further. thus it requires a separate
button.

(e.g. entering a profile name is compulsory, but going on to specify which skin
to use is not, so Finish would be enabled from the profile name page so the user
can exit the wizard there.)

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

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Comment 4

[leger]

Moving all Profile Manager bugs to new Profile Manager Backend component.
Profile Manager component to be deleted.

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by ffxbld-merge:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/8f5124b5eeaf
[fenix] Update Android Components version to 99.0.20220224143100. (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/23973)