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Bug 68217
Opened 24 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
the Progress Meter implementation is not "design-flexible" for themes
Categories
(Core :: XUL, enhancement)
Core
XUL
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NEW
Future
People
(Reporter: marlon.bishop, Unassigned)
Details
In order to allow theme developers, including ourselves, to innovate in the display of progress/activity/status, we need a way of handling and defining new and perhaps non-traditional types of progress meter widgets in a theme chrome. Some ideas to illustrate the problem: 1) Instead of representing progression through the growing bar - we would like to "stack" or adding discrete objects linearly (or perhaps not so linearly). like dots for example. so that the as time progresses: * * * * * *... and so on. Furthermore we would like the flexibility for each object itself to change or grow. For example each increment uses a different image not the same image. Also interesting is the possibility of replacing images as in an animation. We might need a "dial" or radial or elliptical representation of progress. One idea for implementation of this is a way to control and step through the frames of a regular GIF animation - this would be ideal. Most designers have the tools and understand animated GIFs well. 2) There is also the need to have other UI features layered on top of the progress meter, so that it appears to be a less salient activity happening underneath icons, URL text fields or what have you. 3) Alpha Transparency is always welcomed but that might be part of another bug. 4) Finally, the ability to move the progress meter display around to other physical locations for example to the top of the browser window in the Main toolbar. So that it can be integrated visually with other features there. 5) Oh yeah, it should be possible to assign two or more different kinds of progress display based on context. For example you may not want a non- traditional progress meter in a download dialog.
Comment 1•24 years ago
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Good ideas! Unfortunately, it is too late to add them to the current cycle, so we'll have to consider them when planning the next release. ->future
Severity: normal → enhancement
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Comment 4•20 years ago
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I use stylexp to alter my windows xp theme which features a striped progress bar skin, in all over programs, such as internet explorer or even the firefox installer the progress bar fill correctly. Within Firefox however the progress bar stretches the progress meter image instead of tiling it as all other windows applications making it look very ugly. I think it would be a good idea to impliment progressive repeating of the progress bar imaging rather than stretching to represent a percentage of completion.
Updated•14 years ago
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QA Contact: jrgmorrison → xptoolkit.widgets
Comment 5•2 years ago
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The bug assignee didn't login in Bugzilla in the last 7 months, so the assignee is being reset.
Assignee: trudelle → nobody
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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