79871 - Sidebar panel picker like Bookmark menu

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, enhancement)

Description

[Ishq Ali]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    

I think My Sidebar is a great idea which can be improved even further
with a little improvement to the look of the sidebar. Right now, if you
add 5 tabs, you have very little space left for the content of the
selected tab. I have an alternative view which allows for many tabs to
be available but only one showing at anyone time.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Expected Results:  Please see the picture below which i have made to show what 
the tab
selection should look like. This can be very similar to the bookmarks.
The My Tabs folder can have user installed tabs, Mozilla Tabs can have
the mozilla tools like tinderbox etc. and the Tools Tab can have things like 
Bookmarks, History, Address book, Window Explorer like thing, etc.

you can view it here:
http://y42.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/nacheeze/vwp?.dir=/&.dnm=sidebar_idea.JPG&.src
=bc&.view=t&.hires=t

I hope this give you a user's prospective.

Comment 1

[matt]

UI

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

-> UI design

Comment 3

[Pierre Chanial]

Since the address book tab has been implemented, this bug gets more and more
interesting.
- couldn't this title be more explicit? -> 'Minimize/Maximize tab in sidebar'
(I wanted to file it and I spent some time reading all the sidebar-related bugs)
- imho, you shouldn't add un-aesthetic buttons, a simple click on the tab title
could be sufficient to minimize or maximize it (conflict with bug 34925). 
- to get as more space as possible, maximizing a tab should also get rid of
My sidebar   Tabs>

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

reassigning matt's old bugs.

Comment 5

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

The summary doesn't explain anything. The link is dead. The title doesn't
explain anything.

Someone please explain what this bug is about.

Comment 6

[Ian Pottinger]

The link isn't dead.  It has been sliced in two.  A couple of cut&paste's is all
thats needed.

(The above helpgul hint should not be taken as an indorsement of this idea) 

Comment 7

[Ishq Ali]

Attachment: mock image showing the idea

This is the image which shows the idea. I thought i should upload it before
Yahoo starts charging for searches as well.

Comment 8

[Dan Houson]

Good idea

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 10

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 11

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 12

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 13

[Robert Kaiser]

This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 14

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420

Comment 15

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Valid RFE (plus we may be going a similar way anyway).