50872 - Distinction of Active and Inactive icons on the Navigation Toolbar.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[richard pecson]

Using Netscape build {2000080720} and Mozilla build {2000082903}.

The grayed-out versions of the icons on the Navigation Toolbar do not provide
enough visual affordance indicating that the buttons are inactive.

Recommendation: 
Redesign the icons for the grayed out buttons so that the icon itself is more
distinctly "grayed out." Some users may disable the labels in browsers to work
with a less cluttered screen. Thus, these people will need an inactive button
icon to distinctivly change state from the active button icons to know that
option is unavailable. An example of how the icons could be "grayed out" is to
redraw the arrows, currently a dark teal, in a gray color or something
dramatically different from the active icons so that there is a clearer
distinction between active and inactive.

Comment 1

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

Re-assigning 5 bugs to Johnny from Clayton's bug list.  Please triage.  Thanks!

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Reassigning to the UI team.

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Oh, wait a minute. Richard, which theme were you using? This sounds like a 
problem with Blue (which is to be retired shortly), rather than with the Modern 
or Classic themes.

Comment 4

[richard pecson]

I'm using the default theme. 

Comment 5

[hangas]

Marking fixed.  The toolbar buttons have very distict enabled and disabled states 
now that Modern has been updated.

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...