41609 - What's Related tab should be single click

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect, P2)

Description

[johng]

There is currently no management of What's Related data and therefore no added 
value of making this double click.  Also, the general rule for My Sidebar is to 
have single-click (and a UI that indicates single-click, just like Search) 
unless there is a reason to make it double-click (Mail and Bookmarks).

So, please make What's Related single-click and use a UI style like the Search 
tab (as you mouse over, the link is underlined indicating a single click).

Comment 1

[johng]

Marking M18 and nominating nsbeta3

Comment 2

[verah (gone)]

Nav triage team: [nsbeta3+]

Comment 3

[Steve Lamm]

I checked in a fix.

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

Does this bug mean that I should be able to launch url's from 'What's Related' 
tab in the Sidebar with just one click ? If it is so..I do not see it working 
(like 'Search')

Comment 5

[shrirang khanzode]

okay..the fix went into the trunk only(m18). not fixed for m17..though. 

Comment 6

[shrirang khanzode]

Verified on all m18 builds (2000081008)

Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

reopening, I have to double click to open links from What's Related. Am using 
today's 10/26 branch build on windows. keyword: rtm

Comment 8

[shrirang khanzode]

reassign:matt

Comment 9

[don]

rtm-.  I wouldn't stop ship for this.  Any diagreements?  AFAIK, when we were
using the previous "new" what's related content from you-know-who, the content
was actually a web page, not a list like AIM buddies or Bookmarks.  That's why
it was single click.  Now it's reverted to the PR2 inplementation it's a list
again.  Am I wrong about the history here?

Comment 10

[matt]

Yes done.  Reverting to double click was what pr2 was.
I tried add the single click into it but it was giving me 
problems.  IE the seperators where not showing up.  So the desicion
was to make it double click rather then have no seperators.
But then again marketing and PDT make interestings decisions sometimes
times.   So would be rather be double click or have no seperators?

Comment 11

[Mike Jones]

Please use single-click.  I thought the sidebar was broken.  It never dawned on
me to double-click until I read this bug report.  This behaviour is completely
non-intuitive.  The sidebar items (particularly bookmarks, search and what's
related) should act as URL links.  You can work on making it pretty later.  I'd
rather have function than form.  I'm using my remaining votes on this one.

Comment 12

[Blake Ross]

Don, that's correct except that What's Related did, indeed, used to function on 
single-click.  The items used to look like links (blue, underlined) when you 
hovered over them.

Comment 13

[shrirang khanzode]

spam : changing qa to sujay (New Sidebar QA)

Comment 14

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Yeah, we should fix this, but not now, neither beta nor mozilla0.9 stopper,
marking nsbeta1-, resetting target milestone

Comment 15

[Paul Chen]

Marking nsbeta1- bugs as future to get off the radar.

Comment 16

[Peter Trudelle]

->sgehani, as part of eliminating unnecessary double-clicks.

Comment 17

[Samir Gehani]

The mozilla what's related tab uses single-clicks.  Opened bugscape 11340 to
track this issue in the netscape what's related code (which unfortunately is
different than mozilla's what's related codebase).

Comment 18

[sujay]

verified.