265939 - In scrolling menus, make arrows more button-like and responsive.

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, enhancement)

Description

[web]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

In scrolling menus, the arrows should be more like buttons.  That is, the whole
menu item should be outlined so that it is clear that hovering over any part of
the menu item (not just the arrow) will scroll the menu.  Also, the menu item
should depress while active, to provide additional visual feedback.

Do the arrows do this in Windows?  Or other versions of Mozilla or Netscape?  I
seem to remember seeing this behavior before, and I appreciated it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Peter da Silva]

I disagree. While I wish firefox would use native widgets i don't think that it
should blindly copy them. In most cases the native behaviour is at least as good
and usually better than the Gecko behaviour, but in this case it's not: the
scrolling menus Firefox implements are a better design than the native ones.

Firefox should keep the same behaviour, with a scrollbar next to the menu items,
if they can't do the right thing and use native menus.

Comment 2

[web]

Huh?  In the menus I'm referring to (e.g. a folder in the bookmarks toolbar with lots of bookmarks), there 
is no scrollbar next to the bookmarks.  Instead, a small arrow appears as the top and bottom menu items.  
Hovering over these items scroll the menu.  They do not, however, provide much visual feedback.  There's 
no clear visual indication that the entire menu item (not simply the arrow itself) is active.  There's no 
change in the appearance of the arrow or the menu item as the menu scrolls.  I'm suggesting that more 
visual feedback be provided in those areas.