347570 - Scroll buttons on tab bar should show as active (pressed) when dragging tabs over them

Status: REOPENED

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060805 BonEcho/2.0b1

I could've sworn this had been filed. Anyway...

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open enough tabs so you see the scroll buttons on the tab bar.
2. Drag a tab over one of the scroll buttons so the tab strip scrolls.

Results:
Scroll buttons give no indication that they're in use.

Expected results:
We show the scroll buttons as active (pressed) when someone drags a tab over them to scroll the tab bar.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

This brings up an interesting question: should we always show buttons as active (pressed) when we drag something over them? 

For example, I have a the New Tab button on my toolbar. When I drag a tab over it in order to "duplicate" that tab should it show as active?

Comment 2

[Peter Kasting]

(In reply to comment #1)
> For example, I have a the New Tab button on my toolbar. When I drag a tab over
> it in order to "duplicate" that tab should it show as active?

Yes.  Buttons that are going to function when you release your mouse button should be depressed when you've targetted them while your mouse is down, whether due to a click or a drag.

See also bug 347586 that I just filed while playing around with this stuff.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Duping to a really new bug… because it’s ASSIGNED…

Comment 4

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup

Comment 5

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

per comment 0, this is not a duplicate.