268208 - view source should have different icon than browser

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Eyal Rozenberg]

the icon of the 'view source' window should not be that of a browser window. It
would be less confusing and more fitting, IMHO, to have a special icon for it.

Comment 1

[timeless]

atm i'm opposed, but not strongly. please present a case.

Comment 2

[Eyal Rozenberg]

One wants to be able to tell windows of different types by their icon; that's
how I tell my mailnews window apart from my browser window. True, it is possible
to tell windows apart by reading the title bar text - but with many windows
open, the taskbar might not show much of a window's title bar text. So instead
of saying "source of:" before the url in the titlebar text we could just have a
different window icon which means the same thing: source view instead of browser
view.

BTW, one might also think of doing this for the extension panel or the themes
panel. For the extensions panel an icon is already available - the green puzzle
piece.

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