47770 - RFE: collapsed toolbars take up too much space

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[David Hugh-Jones]

okay, instead of having holy wars about text based email vs. html email, and
where to put bookmarks, how about some uncontroversial improvements?

1. collapsed toolbars. why would I collapse toolbars unless it would save me
space? so why do they print a big fat grey line across my screen? duh.

The correct solution is to do what IE does and have those neato moveable
toolbars. Failing that, at least make them thinner.

Comment 1

[Sean Richardson]

David, please state what Milestone or build you saw this problem with.

Testing with yesterday's build on WinNT, when both the navigation toolbar and
the personal toolbar are collapsed, the widgets that will make them re-appear
are placed below the File and Edit menu names, and are no thicker than
the equivalent in Netscape Navigator 4.x. Also, that whole area is white,
not grey (which does look daft under the white menubar, admittedly).

With those details, it seems likely that you are reporting a bug that has
been fixed since the version of Mozilla that you are using was distributed --
possibly bug 37766, "minimising personal and navigation toolbar causes ui 
horkage".

Comment 2

[David Hugh-Jones]

Sean: no, it's not that bug, which I remember. This is an RFE for less chrome.
Using a recent M18 build on Linux. Actually with the classic skin it ain't too
bad, and my themes ain't working so I can't check with the modern skin. Why not
WFM it. Meanwhile that brings me to a coupla new bugs I just noticed while
checking this one - mwahahahahahah.... YOU WILL NEVER ESCAPE.

Comment 3

[Brendan Donohoe]

Yep, it's true.  The current mechanism is of dubious utility because the 
collapsed toolbar takes up so much space (just like in 4.x).  Accepting and 
marking Future so this issue can be revisited in a future release.

Comment 4

[leger]

Reassigning from bdonohoe to hangas

Comment 5

[hangas]

Sending to Ben, he told me he was working on the toolbars...

Comment 6

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the 
owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard 
work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...

Comment 7

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

This is not likely to be fixed in itself until we get stacking toolbars, which 
is probably not for some time. marking WONTFIX.