284739 - Help viewer does not respect the small icons settings in customise toolbars

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Help Viewer, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Arthur]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

The help viewer does not pick up the use small icon settings from the main app.
Instead large icons are displayed regardless of the settings.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set icons to small, by right clicking on the toolbar and selecting customise
2. Observe the main icons change
3. Open help viewer.
Actual Results:  
Help viewer still has large icons displaying

Expected Results:  
Display small icons

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, the settings for the toolbars in teh browse-window and the help window
are not coupled - you can set them independently. It might be useful to couple
them, but I don't now if there would be many people in favor of this.

This is not a bug, but an enhancement request. But I don't know it would be
accepted.

Comment 2

[Jeff Walden (gone starting June 8)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Reporter, the settings for the toolbars in teh browse-window and the help window
> are not coupled - you can set them independently.

Indeed.

However, we don't actually have small icons for the Help viewer to use.  I don't
remember the exact reason for it now, but I think it was either to save space (a
valid reason) or because the viewer shouldn't need that level of customization.
 Both are valid reasons, so I think this is WONTFIX.

(At some point we may add small icons to the Help Viewer, and at that point this
bug could possibly be reconsidered.  However, for now this bug should be closed.
 We've got enough other stuff to worry about as is.)

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

*** Bug 287773 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> However, we don't actually have small icons for the Help viewer to use.  I don't
> remember the exact reason for it now, but I think it was either to save space (a
> valid reason) or because the viewer shouldn't need that level of customization.
>  Both are valid reasons, so I think this is WONTFIX.
> (At some point we may add small icons to the Help Viewer, and at that point this
> bug could possibly be reconsidered.  However, for now this bug should be closed.
>  We've got enough other stuff to worry about as is.)

setting target furure would have been a simpler solution.
It obviously can't be a high priority, but people do notice the difference so it
seems a pretty valid polish bug to me.

just my 2 cents.

I'll leave resetting the bug to you (in case you change your mind or stick to
the earlier decision).

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 287772 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***