45950 - We need the ability to toggle the Status Bar.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P3)

Description

[Jeremy Wrinkle]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000719
BuildID:    2000071910

 How come you can't toggle the Status Bar? All the other bars (except the menu
bar) are toggable. Sometimes I'd really like to be able to get it out of my way.
All you would need to do is add a few lines of code to navigatorOverlay.xul:

      <broadcaster id="cmd_viewstatus-bar" type="checkbox"
oncommand="goToggleToolbar('status-bar','cmd_viewstatus-bar');" checked="true"/>

<menuitem value="&status-bar;" observes="cmd_viewstatus-bar" />

This would make the Status Bar toggable.

I'll add an attachment as soon as I go to the bathroom.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add code.
2. Turn on Mozilla.
3. Toggle Status Bar.

Comment 1

[Jeremy Wrinkle]

Attachment: This is the navigatorOverlay.xul file with the ability to toggle the Status Bar.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

confirming.

Jeremy, lemme know if you need the CanConfirm priv switched on for you!

Comment 3

[Jeremy Wrinkle]

Sure, you can turn it on.

Comment 4

[Matthew Brealey]

Note: control+ alt+s is the switch for this (in Netscape 3, my browser of 
choice, at least).

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Marking this bug as blocking bug 18768 and bug 34716.

Comment 6

[James Green]

Patch is up for review right? Adding review keyword. Bug 18768 is severity
Normal, upping this one to match.

Comment 7

[timeless]

arg. this file rotted. in the future please use diff -u

Comment 8

[timeless]

Attachment: cvs patch

Comment 9

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

timeless asked me to WONTFIX this so he could verif. 

This should be done using userChrome.css for your personal copy. 

The best way to offer a minimal chrome UI is to implement fullscreen correctly 
rather than allowing the toggling of individual elements inside a chromed 
window. 

Comment 10

[Claudius Gayle]

do whatever you want... QA-->timeless

Comment 11

[timeless]

vrfy wontfix

Comment 12

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

*** Bug 75157 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 78983 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Blake Ross]

Reopening in light of bug 43797 (and 45950).  This warrants more discussion now 
that the taskbar and the statusbar will be merged, I guess.

Comment 15

[David Hallowell]

Fixed since the removal of the taskbar.
View > Toolbars > Statusbar
2001050904 Win2k

Comment 16

[:deanis74]

The menu text should be "Status Bar" not "Statusbar". New bug for that?

Comment 17

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Since CTRL+ALT+S was nixed per
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/mozkeyintro.html can we have
something else besides just a menu option?

Comment 18

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

see bug 86758 for an rfe to toggle the status bar.

unsure if/where there's a bug for changing Statusbar to Status Bar...i thought
it existed, but i couldn't find it...

so, this does look fixed since View > Show/Hide > Statusbar does exist.

Comment 19

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

feh, really verifying [2001.06.19.xx comm bits on linux, mac and winnt
--actually been there for some time].