639356 - Make tab overflow panning more discoverable

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

Steps to reproduce:
* Open five or more tabs
* Turn the phone to orient it in landscape (horizontal)
* Swipe right to show the tab panel on the left

Expected results:

Tabs should all fit in the panel area (in this case, the layout should be 2 column not 3 column)

Actual results:

There are three columns of tabs and the 3rd column is cut off halfway making it difficult to click on those tabs or to click the X button to close one

Fennec 5.0b6pre / Gecko 2.0b13pre / 20110305
Android 2.2
T-Mobile G2 (HTC Vision?)

Using nightly version of Fennec (although this has happened for a while)

Comment 1

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Attachment: bug screenshot

A couple of things to note here:

* The steps to reproduce should be:
1. Open the tab sidebar and open 6 tabs
2. Switch to landscape mode
3. Close one of the tabs


* You can horizontally scroll within the tab sidebar, but its not at all clear until a user begins scrolling it. It'd be good to show the scrollbar at onset in this scenario.

Comment 2

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

+1 bump.  I also believe that it isn't clear that there is a horizontal scroll on the sidebar currently.

Comment 3

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

I do agree the scrollbars should be showned during a few seconds when you display something you can scroll.

This will be post 4.0 for sure.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component