420958 - Dropdown icon is missing in site button

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Theme, enhancement)

Description

[Darren Kalck [:D-Kalck]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030405 Minefield/3.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030405 Minefield/3.0b5pre

According to Alex's mockup : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=299530
The dropdown icon is missing in new site button

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Suggesting wontfix.

Comment 2

[Darren Kalck [:D-Kalck]]

Since there's a dropdown icon for the search bar button, I think there should be a dropdown icon for site button for consistency reasons even if it's not a menu.
If there's no dropdown icon, nothing indicates that this is a button.

Comment 3

[Darren Kalck [:D-Kalck]]

Attachment: Mockup of suggestion

The icon is shifted 2 pixels to the left, and the button is 4 pixels larger to make room for the dropdown icon (I used the same values as the search bar button).

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #2)0
> Since there's a dropdown icon for the search bar button, I think there should
> be a dropdown icon for site button for consistency reasons even if it's not a
> menu.

Could you explain what you mean by "consistency reasons"? The search button allows you to drop down a list of items from which a user may choose a search engine. The site identity button shows more information about the current connection to the web site.

Should we also have drop down markers on bookmark toolbar folders for consistency? Should we have a drop down on the star button for consistency?

I'll accept arguments that the site button doesn't look "pushable" enough, and isn't offering a button-like affordance, but I can't really see a consistency argument here, as drop-down indicators are used to show that there is a set of options to choose from, not that the resulting UI will appear beneath the button.

> If there's no dropdown icon, nothing indicates that this is a button.

Then we need to make it look more like a button.

Comment 5

[Darren Kalck [:D-Kalck]]

I discussed about that with alex :
> ((faaborg)) so I guess really I just want the site button and search button to look the same
> ((D-Away)) same for me :)
> ((faaborg)) because that would look nice, rational thinking aside
I think you're right, and the site button should really look like a button.

Comment 6

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

I think this has more to do with visual consistency as opposed to interactive consistency.  The difference between menu items and the more information button seems a little subtle.  Overall I don't have much of a case.  Making the button have more of a button affordance sounds like a good idea.