576409 - Implement the full tab triage experience.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, defect, P2)

Description

[Aza Raskin [:aza]]

Please see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/TabCandy/Design/Triage

Note, this bug is for creating the full triage experience. It depends on bug #576408.

Comment 1

[(no longer active)]

Mass moving all Tab Candy bugs from Mozilla Labs to Firefox::Tab Candy.  Filter the bugmail spam with "tabcandymassmove".

Comment 2

[Matthew Galloway]

Copied from bug 576408, as it has been marked as resolved. 

More of a suggestion than a bug;
I like this idea. However, I'm not sure if using a right (or option) clicking a
tab and using menu is the right way of going about it. I would think that using
the same ctrl+space combination again to quickly shuttle things around be the
best option. 

How I would do it:
ctrl+space works as expected, provide you just press the keys momentarily.
However, if you hold down that combination, the active tab would dim and a
miniature version of the visual tab interface (identical to the one that was
planed for the full triage experience) would show up beneath the cursor (or in
the center of the window, either way) so that the user could select what group
to put the tab in. 

Expected benefits:
- Same spatial memory benefits as the full tab interface
- Same usage familiarity to alt-tab (apple-tab)
- Faster than moving all the way to the top of the screen and going through a
menu

At the very least:
Add the "Move this tab to" option to the in-window right click menu.

Comment 3

[Aza Raskin [:aza]]

Matthew, I do like that suggestion. When we get time to return to implementing this, will put more thought into it.

Comment 4

[Ian Gilman [:iangilman]]

Punting to the future.

Comment 5

[Kevin Hanes]

bugspam

Comment 6

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

bugspam

Comment 7

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

bugspam

Comment 8

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

bugspam

(Fx7 was branched, removing open bugs from Fx7 meta bug, we won't create new meta bugs for upcoming Fx versions)

Comment 9

[Raymond Lee [:raymondlee]]

Are we going to implement the design in comment 0 or there will be an update?

Comment 10

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

(In reply to Raymond Lee [:raymondlee] from comment #9)
> Are we going to implement the design in comment 0 or there will be an update?

Good question. We should ask UX if we want that and if we want it to look like that.

Comment 11

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

I'm pretty happy with the current "downgraded experience."  The group names are easy to recognize and process, and while it doesn't leverage the user's sense of spatial memory, the interface feels lighter and simpler than putting all of panorama into a sub menu of a context menu.

Comment 12

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Marking as won't fix based on comment #11.