Closed Bug 588589 Opened 15 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Tab glow/activated state

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: faaborg, Unassigned)

References

Details

We need the ability for a tab to indicate that it requires the user's attention. This will likely end up being similar to how the windows task bar will style certain applications as bright orange if they are trying to get the user's attention (color and texture change, but not necessarily pulsing if that seems like it is over the top). Uses of this glow state will include: 1) Any tab (normal or app) that contains a tab modal panel that requires user input (js alert/prompt/confirm) 2) App tab that has had a title change (for instance the user has received an instance message in gtalk, or mibbit) 3) The locally hosted Home Tab is display a snippet notification that requires the user's attention (like they haven't restarted in a long time and they need to apply a security update)
Blocks: 588590
Depends on: 577096
(Don't know if I'm better off commenting here or in bug 577096 at this point.) I've not been able to use the betas but I'm told that Panorama holds its groups within one window. If this is the case then multiple tabs may be hidden at any time. This creates quite a notification issue - especially if you're in a chat with someone and check something in another group, get distracted and completely space on the convo. Such situations could lead to significant frustrations. If there is already a solution to this issue or another bug is already filed on the it, please let me know. My thought on it would be to pulse the Panorama icon once (and then another half pulse to keep the color). Once the user opens Panorama, use the same effect on all affected tabs (or minimized groups) in order to draw the user's attention. Whether or not the user chooses to view any of the tabs, reset the panorama icon state. If the user leaves and returns to panorama, leave 'old' attention-needed tabs their solid highlight color while animating any new notifications.
>This creates quite a notification issue App tabs are meant to be global, unfortunately there are some implementation issues in the way, but we are trying to avoid this being a problem.
(In reply to comment #3) > >This creates quite a notification issue > > App tabs are meant to be global, unfortunately there are some implementation > issues in the way, but we are trying to avoid this being a problem. I'm confused... I'm not referring as much to App tabs as I am tabs which are hidden off-window, out of sight, in a different group. This is the notification issue to which I'm referring.
(In reply to comment #4) > I'm not referring as much to App tabs as I am tabs which are hidden off-window, > out of sight, in a different group. This is the notification issue to which > I'm referring. And the solution to that would be to turn important tabs (like Gmail/chat) into a global app tab, which would solve it. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely to make it in time for Firefox 4. I'd welcome a patch if someone wants to look at it. It's not really related to what this particular bug is about, though.
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > I'm not referring as much to App tabs as I am tabs which are hidden off-window, > > out of sight, in a different group. This is the notification issue to which > > I'm referring. > > And the solution to that would be to turn important tabs (like Gmail/chat) into > a global app tab, which would solve it. > > Unfortunately, it seems unlikely to make it in time for Firefox 4. I'd welcome > a patch if someone wants to look at it. It's not really related to what this > particular bug is about, though. I disagree that the solution is to expect the user to turn tabs which may potentially notify them into app tabs. Beside that I don't want my bank or a chat or some other site I visit very infrequently. I do, however, want to know if they need my attention (as per this bug) but are hidden by panorama. But indeed that's not what this bug is about so I have filed bug 593120.
I'm voiting for dark silver glow (the same we have now in toolbars background) mixed with bright silver-white (very cool effect, hard to miss, even harder to describe). It perfectly fits the overall styling.
Is this feature suppose to work in normal tabs too?
(In reply to comment #8) > Is this feature suppose to work in normal tabs too? Gabriela: No. I think that if this bug isn't fixed by the final release I'll be switching to Chrome... Sorry but app tabs and panorama aren't worth nothing without notifications... It would be worse than without them.
(In reply to comment #8) > Is this feature suppose to work in normal tabs too? Look at bug 577132.
This feature is not working in today's nightly: all the App tab that have had a title change did not glow.
Regarding the change in bug 577096, we should be using blue or orange. The semantic meaning of dialog box icons seems to come into play here: blue: thought you might like to know yellow/orange: you are about to possibly make an error (or in the case of the windows task bar, "hey, look at me") red: the computer had an error, not your fault, can't recover
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100907 Firefox/4.0b6pre Very sorry for my insistence but the glow is not working in today's nightly either (Sept 7) as it didn't with yesterday's one: the App tab that had a title change did not glow. It worked fine in Sept 4's one though and I thought it looked very nice. Is any one else seeing the same?
(In reply to comment #13) > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b6pre) Gecko/20100907 Firefox/4.0b6pre > > Very sorry for my insistence but the glow is not working in today's nightly > either (Sept 7) as it didn't with yesterday's one: the App tab that had a title > change did not glow. It worked fine in Sept 4's one though and I thought it > looked very nice. > Is any one else seeing the same? You're looking for bug 593836. Please give more examples in that bug if you see the brokeness on other sites.
(In reply to comment #14) > You're looking for bug 593836. Please give more examples in that bug if you > see the brokeness on other sites. No, just GMail. I'll follow bug 593836 now. Thanks!
What the UX team is currently thinking about this change ?
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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