541799 - xul:radiogroup orient can't be changed by theme developers though it should

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Nick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

I probably want to make a theme which will have all pref-panes arranged vertically, like in Firefox 1:
http://www.montana.edu/resnet/setup/firefox/firefox1.jpg

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to change the orient of prefpanes using userChrome.css and Google and your knowledge
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Actual Results:  
No success because in chrome://global/content/bindings/preferences.xml
There is a line 548:
<xul:radiogroup anonid="selector" orient="horizontal"  ...
Which fixes the orient, in XML.

Expected Results:  
It's a cosmetic, appearance issue, theme developers should be able to change it, and so should I with userChrome.css

Maybe it could be harmless for Firefox code developers to write instead
<xul:radiogroup anonid="selector" style="-moz-orient:horizontal;"  ...
So that theme developers can control the orient?

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

You can override it with !important, can't you? The XML attribute just ends up triggering the relevant attribute selector rule in xul.css.

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Nevermind, I was thinking of something else.

Comment 7

[q0k]

I tried to write the followind code in userChrome.css, and it didn't do any single change:

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
@namespace html url("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml");
@namespace xbl url("http://www.mozilla.org/xbl");
radiogroup{-moz-box-orient:vertical !important;}


Which suggestions do you have?

Comment 8

[Andy McKay]

Legacy extensions are no longer valid in Firefox 57, closing.