Closed Bug 626018 Opened 13 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Make console filtering buttons tri-state

Categories

(DevTools :: Console, defect, P3)

x86
Windows 7
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: jk1700, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: polish, uiwanted)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110114 Firefox/4.0b10pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110114 Firefox/4.0b10pre

There should be difference between filtering buttons (CSS/JS/etc) with only few options selected and button without any option selected

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 2 web consoles in two tabs
2. In the first console select only "Errors" in "CSS" button
3. In the second one deselect all options in "CSS" button
4. Compare "CSS" button in both consoles
Actual Results:  
"CSS" button look same

Expected Results:  
"CSS" button should look different
Blocks: devtools4
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Attached image Filtering buttons
Here are 2 buttons which are in "off" state (CSS and JS). In one of them all options are turned off, in the second one "Error" is turned on - guess which one?
This makes sense to me. This would be nice to have, but I am almost sure this will not land in Firefox4. Patrick, Joe, what do you guys think?
Severity: normal → trivial
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: polish, uiwanted
I see gadjo's point, but I agree that we're not likely to get this into firefox 4. maybe a subsequent release.
There was a lot of discussion in bug 599498 about the filter button appearance, in particular https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599498#c18. The checkbox nature of the buttons isn't discoverable.

I think the very button-y appearance is misleading and also is hard to make tri-state.

One idea to solve this is to not make the filters checkboxes buttons, but to make the little color squares empty if the filter is applied, and colored if not. I think there might be room for a tri-state UI here too, half-colored or something similar. Something like this, a bit more check-boxy.
can haz mockupz?
Component: Developer Tools → Developer Tools: Console
QA Contact: developer.tools → developer.tools.console
No longer blocks: devtools4
Priority: -- → P3
I don't think we want to do this.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Firefox → DevTools
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