366730 - Scrollable tabbed browsing should respect OS preference for placement of scroll arrows

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, defect)

Description

[Desmond Elliott]

The Mac OS X System Preferences Appearance Pane allows the user to chose whether or not scroll arrows are placed together or at either end of a scroll bar.

The new tabbed browsing bar in Camino should respect what the user has selected in this preference pane.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

I don't see a scroll bar in the tab bar...

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Yeah, it's not a scroll bar; it's a tab bar.  (I thought we discussed this before, but I can't find it, so maybe we haven't.)

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Not to pile on, but I pretty much agree with Stuart and Smokey.

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Comment 4

[Torben]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Yeah, it's not a scroll bar; it's a tab bar. 

But standard OS X tab bars are _not_ scrollable. Since we have created something of a hybrid tab and scroll bar, I think it makes sense to reuse the OS preference.

Comment 5

[Desmond Elliott]

(In reply to comment #4)

> But standard OS X tab bars are _not_ scrollable. Since we have created
> something of a hybrid tab and scroll bar, I think it makes sense to reuse the
> OS preference.

I agree with Torben. What we will have in the future is a hybrid tab/scroll bar and people might reasonably expect that since they can scroll through their tabs that the scroll buttons should obey the OS preference that they have set.

Comment 6

[Stuart Morgan]

It's not a hybrid scroll bar. A scroll bar is a control which has no content,
and which controls the visible region of an associated view. The tab bar is a
view which has its own controls to change the visible tabs. I can't think of
anything which contains both content and its own scroll controls that follows
the pref.

It's a significant distinction, since while you might well want to scroll a
scroll view up and down without interacting with any other part of the scroll
bar, making grouping the two arrows useful, you would almost never scroll the
tab bar for any reason other than to use the mouse to interact with at
currently out-of-view tab. I have my scroll bar arrows grouped at the
bottom/side, but I would not want to have to move my mouse to the right side of
my window to scroll to left-hand tabs then move my mouse to the left side of
the window to interact with the tab I was looking for.

I think the tab bar is much more like a long menu (which places arrows at the
ends regardless of scroll bar pref) than it is like a scroll bar.

Comment 7

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Per pinkerton and status meeting, WONTFIX based on the reasons covered in comment 6.