304510 - Infobar should be clickable instead of button.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Granade]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

When installing an XPI from a non-whitelisted site, an infobar appears at the
top of the page pane. The "Edit Options..." button is placed at the far right
end of the bar, and is not near the text describing the problem. It would make
more sense from a usability stand point to either make the text a link to the
appropriate dialog, or to make the entire info bar clickable. That way, the
target area is much larger, harder to confuse and yet still not confused with
other functionality, since the entire info bar is one item insofar as the user
is concerned.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A.
Actual Results:  
N/A.

Expected Results:  
N/A.

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

The button was added intentionally for keyboard accessability.

I believe this bug is a dupe of a wontfixed bug however I can't find it.

Comment 2

[Chris Granade]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The button was added intentionally for keyboard accessability.
> 
> I believe this bug is a dupe of a wontfixed bug however I can't find it.

Seems like there's a way to meet both demands... as far as dupes go, I couldn't
find it either, so my apologies if I did dupe a bug.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

Kind of related to bug 251131.

Comment 4

[Chris Granade]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Kind of related to bug 251131.

Kind of. Not exactly. This bug only proposes that the entire bar respond
somehow. Kind of the idea that you should be able to click on a conceptual item.
Here, we have a notification of a problem, so clicking on it should bring up
more info, since we don't list the choices right on the bar itself, though that
might be a resolution. As far as accessibility, if needed, we could place an
invisible button with an accelerator, attach an accelerator to a hyperlink or
one other such means. The popup blocker already exhibits the desired behavior,
so the XPI blocker is inconsistant.

Comment 5

[José Jeria]

In IE the entire bar is clickable. You can also tab to it and press space to
bring up the contextmenu to see the options.

Comment 6

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This bar is not specific to the add-ons manager, rather it is a generic XUL widget. Any decision about whether to make the entire bar clickable for a default action should be made for all consumers, it doesn't make sense to make a special case for extension installation.