286440 - Support Multiple Toolbar Palettes

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Toolbars and Toolbar Customization, defect)

Description

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

XUL supports a single toolbar palette for toolbar customization:

<toolbarpalette>
  <toolbarbutton/>
  <toolbaritem/>
</toolbarpalette>

We would like to support N palettes or palette groups (not yet sure of what the
correct syntax is)... the Customize Toolbars Window would be able to show
individual groups either via tabs or filter buttons. I'm also not quite sure of
what the final UI should be. Maybe these are vendor defined groups, or category
defined filtering.

This will make it easier for users to find the items they want quickly.

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

The late (unlamented Netscape 8.0) had a tabbed palette window. Buttons would be put into various tabs based on a toolbaritem attribute e.g. <toolbarbutton group="foo"/> where "foo" was a predefined list. If group was undefined or the value unknown, the toolbaritem would go into a misc tab.