526772 - Ugly prefwindow and wizard interface

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.9.1.6pre) Gecko/20091103 Shiretoko/3.5.6pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
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Ugly prefwindow and wizard interface. I know little XUL, and made, IMHO much better UI. Please try attached files.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

Attachment: Prefwindow

Comment 2

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

Attachment: Wizard

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Attachment: -w diff

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

How about screenshots?  Or a list of what you're looking to change?

"X sucks, Y is better" really isn't an effective process.

Comment 5

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

(In reply to comment #4)
> How about screenshots?  Or a list of what you're looking to change?
> 
I'm not looking to change, I made changes. See diff.

> "X sucks, Y is better" really isn't an effective process.
I prefer write code instead poems about what I doing. Just change attached files with original, and you will be see differences.

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

No one asked for poems, but your attitude is terrible.

I did as you basically demanded:

* The spacing for the Sign In button is weird.  yes, it should be narrower. filed Bug 526955
* The terms and conditions checkbox move breaks the visual alignment of the wizard page.  Need to fix the alignment of the text nodes for beta, but I don't think the alignment is right.
* The Back/Continue buttons are really bizarrely spaced on the passphrase page.  You also duplicate the string twice (groupbox heading and field label.) I also think that the field is too small (we want to encourage longer passphrases.)
* The post-setup prefpane is now cluttered for no apparent reason.  Most of those controls will be rarely/ever needed, which is why they're behind a progressive disclosure widget.  You've made something simple more complex, and you've refused to bother explaining why this is required.

I'm just going to mark this wontfix, and fix the one spinoff.

Comment 7

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

Attachment: Screanshots oryginal and my version

Comment 8

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

(In reply to comment #6)
> No one asked for poems, but your attitude is terrible.
I wrote only what I prefer. I don't understand your attitude. I'm happy when some one want correct my work for better look and behavior.
>
>  You also duplicate the string twice (groupbox heading and field label.) I also
> think that the field is too small (we want to encourage longer passphrases.)
It's only for tests. You can change string without any problems. In the attached new version I added control for adjust this textbox.
> * The post-setup prefpane is now cluttered for no apparent reason.  Most of
> those controls will be rarely/ever needed, which is why they're behind a
> progressive disclosure widget.  You've made something simple more complex, and
> you've refused to bother explaining why this is required.
See attached images, and you will be know why I changed this layout.

Comment 9

[Leszek Zyczkowski]

Attachment: Version with control passphrase textbox width