Closed Bug 519920 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Please use scrollbars, not scroll arrows, to let the user scroll long menus

Categories

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275658

People

(Reporter: jasonspiro4, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009091106 CentOS/3.0.14-1.el5.centos Firefox/3.0.14
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Please use scrollbars, not scroll arrows, to let the user scroll long menus.  This lets the user:

1.  choose the speed of scrolling:  fast or slow, as they wish.
2.  better see how many items there are in a menu.
3.  better see their current scroll position.

To try out scrollbars in long menus and see how great they are, please install the extension https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/2600 which adds a vertical scrollbar to your bookmarks menu.

Reproducible: Always
It's against the Apple Human Interface Guidelines at least (I didn't check other GUI's).

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGMenus/XHIGMenus.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000356-TP6

<quote>
A downward-pointing indicator at the bottom of the scrolling menu indicates that there are more items. When the user starts to scroll down, an upward-pointing indicator appears at the top of the menu to show that some items are no longer visible in that direction. When the user drags past the last visible item, the menu scrolls to show the additional items. When the last item is shown, the downward-pointing indicator disappears.

If the user drags back up to the top, the menu scrolls back down in the same manner. The next time the menu is opened, it appears in its original state (with the indicator at the bottom).

Do not design your application to intentionally include scrolling menus; they should exist only when a user adds many items to a customizable menu or when the menu’s function causes it to have items added to it (for example, the Finder’s Window menu).
</quote>

see also bug 492152
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus → XUL
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