442854 - notification panel should be smaller if notifications take up less vertical space

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

If notifications take up less than the 30em of vertical space allocated to them in the notifications panel, the panel should shrink to the height of the notifications instead of maintaining a fixed height, which covers up more of the underlying web page than necessary and places notifications farther away from the mouse's location on the notification icon.

Unfortunately, I don't think we can do this declaratively (i.e. via CSS) because of bug 442164.  At least, I haven't yet figured out a declarative workaround.  But we could resize the panel after opening it based on the amount of vertical space the notifications take up.

Comment 1

[Dan Mills [:thunder]]

Setting this apart for a future release.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We're now using a bottom-aligned notification bar on Firefox, the panel is deprecated, and only shown for 3.5/3.6 at this point.