585681 - Provide a different way of handling App Tabs in Visual Tab Interface

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 578553

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, enhancement)

Description

[Tan Wei Lin Jason [:Ryuji]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100807 Minefield/4.0b4pre
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Currently App tabs in the Visual Tab Interface are handled like a normal Tab. They look like normal tabs but they always appear in the tab bar even when they are not in the select tab grouping. I believe it is intended behaviour for App tabs to in the tab bar all the time.

If grouping app tab into Tab Groups will not affect them, this may led to confusion among users. 

Proposed Solution 1: Show only App Tabs in selected Tab Group. Hide other App tabs that are not in Selected Tab Group. Provided that App Tabs in Visual Tab Interface look different from Normal Tabs.

Proposed Solution 2: Keep current behaviour, do not show any App Tabs in Visual Tab Interface. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

Aza already has some design work and thoughts on this. Assigning it to him.

Comment 2

[Tan Wei Lin Jason [:Ryuji]]

Aza, how are you going to solve this problem?

Comment 3

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